Litigants will lose confidence in judicial system due to delayed disposal of cases: SC | India News

NEW DELHI: Observing that litigants might turn out to be disillusioned if the authorized course of strikes at a snail’s tempo, the Supreme Court docket on Friday issued instructions, together with a couple of to the excessive courts, for making certain speedy trial and disposal of outdated instances. A bench comprising justices S Ravindra Bhat and Aravind Kumar referred to the country-wide knowledge of the Nationwide Judicial Information Grid (NJDG) on pendency of instances and mentioned joint efforts by the bar and bench had been wanted to deal with the difficulty.
“Litigants might turn out to be disillusioned when the authorized course of strikes at a snail’s tempo. We’ve got expressed our anguish the place some litigations are pending for 50 years as per NJDG,” the bench mentioned and referred to some outdated instances which haven’t been determined for over 65 years in states like West Bengal, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh.
“Litigants will lose confidence within the judicial system when the delay continues,” Justice Kumar mentioned.
The bench mentioned litigants must be circumspect about in search of frequent adjournments.
“….they need to not take goodness of the presiding officers as their weak point,” the judges mentioned as they issued as many as 11 instructions to take care of pendency of instances.
The bench mentioned instances pending for over 5 years wanted to be monitored by the respective excessive courts.