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the sheer number of mindnumbing number of open cases in indian judiciary is the problem.

Here are a couple of livestreams of high courts in india https://www.youtube.com/c/BlackGownlaw https://www.youtube.com/c/GujaratHighCourtLive/videos

you can easily find courts right now hearing cases from 20-30 years ago meaning all that time, the case has been delayed for some reason or the other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-1qOtI9zv8

here is a hearing for a person who has been incarcerated for 4 years and no charges have been filed against him. the court granted him bail but it only took the court 4 years to do so.

edit: that said, it is simply not a question of increasing the number of courts because apparently it costs milions and millions to set up a single courtroom.

things have definitely improved in the last decades as arbitration is given preference, there is things like "lok adalats" where small cases are heard in a quick succession so that case loads are reduced.



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