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| Pending court cases on increase in Jammu Kashmir | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Sep 12:
The number of pending cases in the state high court and the subordinate courts in Jammu and Kashmir has been increasing year after year. It has enhanced hardships and difficulties of the litigant public.
Official sources said that one of the reasons for the increase in the number of pending cases was shortage of judges in the High Court and the subordinate courts.
Sources said that 50 per cent posts of judges are vacant in the high court. Against the sanctioned number of 14 posts of judges only seven remain occupied and hence it was impossible for the seven judges to complete the work of 14 judges.
Source said that a survey indicated that the number of pending cases in the High Court and the subordinate courts had crossed 2.44 lakhs by the beginning of the current year. They said that by the end of 2010 the number of pending cases had touched 2.43 lakhs 59,000 in the High Court and 1.84 lakhs in the subordinate courts.
They said in 2009 the total number of pending cases in the courts was over 2.20 lakhs indicating a yearly rise by over 20,000 cases.
Sources believed that since the crime graph, including the one related to militancy related violence, had increase in Jammu and Kashmir the entire judiciary was over burdened. They said during the last two years the state has been experiencing hike in the rate of judicial activism the workload in the high court had further increased.
Senior members of the Jammu Bar are of the opinion that there was need for not only filling all the vacant posts of judges but also of raising the overall strength from 14 to 20.
They said there was need for increasing the number of post of judicial magistrates and munsiffs in the subordinate courts.
Those who have been seen spending days and months in the court premises as litigant public want that the entire judicial process and functioning be revamped so that cases were not allowed to linger on for years. They have appealed to judges and other presiding officers to streamline the hearing process so that none had complaints about delayed justice which amounts to justice denied
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