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5.8 crore cases waiting in court
More than 5.8 crore cases are pending in India's courts, and more than one in ten has waited over a decade.
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What we know
In October 2026 the National Judicial Data Grid showed 5.15 crore cases pending in district and lower courts, 65.4 lakh in the High Courts and about 95,500 in the Supreme Court. About 47 lakh district-court cases are more than ten years old, and 80,660 High Court cases are more than 30 years old.
Open questions
- How many cases are pending in your district court, and what kinds take longest?
- Which districts clear more cases than they receive each year, and what do they do differently?
- How many hearings does an average case in your district take before a verdict?
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