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Endless wait for justice in courts, says former CJI Ranjan Gogoi

'You want a $5 trillion economy but you have a ramshackled judiciary'

In picture: CJI Ranjan Gogoi
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Former CJI Ranjan Gogoi

Upmanyu Trivedi | Bloomberg
Former chief justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi said he won’t go to the Supreme Court with his grievances because he would have to wait endlessly for a verdict.
 
“You want a $5-trillion economy but you have a ramshackled judiciary,” said Gogoi, who retired as the head of the country’s judiciary in November 2019 and is now a member of the Upper House of Parliament.
 
Gogoi’s remarks calling for an overhaul of the judiciary’s capacity and efficacy highlights India’s troubles with delayed verdicts and enforcing contracts. Court systems in Asia’s third-largest economy are clogged with over 43 million