Karnataka High Court clearing 18,000 cases a year

District and Taluk level courts clear 165,000 cases, according to former judge Nag Mohan Das

The Karnataka High Court decides 18,000 cases a year, and the district and taluk-level courts about 165,000, High Court’s former Judge Justice Nag Mohan Das said here in Mysore on Wednesday.

Participating in the National Law Day organised jointly by the District Legal Services Authority and the Mysuru Bar Association on Wednesday, he said similarly the Supreme Court was disposing off over 60,000 cases a year. Though India was deciding the highest number of cases in the world, he said, yet 35 million cases were pending in the courts and the chief reason was the shortage of staff in courts in the country. He urged that these vacant posts be filled up at the earliest.

Justice Das compared the verdicts given by courts in the US and other developed countries to those of decisions passed by the Supreme Court, and said this was an example of the progress made in the country’s judicial system.

Having been given a secondary status, women faced large-scale atrocities. Aware of this, courts were giving more decisions in favour of women realising its responsibility towards them based on their plight and helpless condition.

All religions had their own ‘Dharma Granthas’. However, there was no such exclusive sacred text for Indians as a whole. Therefore, the Constitution itself was the sacred text for them, the former Judge said and added that it was one of the best Constitutions with many good features, he added.