 "A judge hitting gavel with paper at wooden table. (Photo: Shutterstock)")
Of the 30 million pending court cases in India as of December 2014, over 80% are in district and subordinate courts, which are short of about 5,000 (23%) judges. But filling vacancies may not be the universal answer, according to our analysis, which found only a weak direct correlation between shortage of judges and performance of lower courts.
India’s judicial delays are legendary, and its shortage of judges well-known, as IndiaSpend has reported (here,
