India is grappling with a massive crisis that strikes at the core of justice — an overwhelmed judicial system burdened by an astonishing backlog of over 50 million criminal and civil cases. This ...

India’s judicial system is tremendously overburdened. More than 50 million cases are pending in courts today, with each case potentially taking more than a decade to resolve. A 2023 study on India’s ...

The latest edition describes the judicial system as an ‘impartial and independent’ institution that safeguards citizens’ ...

A nation’s progress largely depends on the strength and fairness of its judicial system. An effective judiciary ensures equality before the law, promotes social trust, and upholds democratic values.

Days after the Supreme Court of India’s landmark ruling against legalizing same-sex marriages, Chief Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud sat down with Harvard Law Professor David B. Wilkins ’77 to ...

Few phrases capture the frustration of India’s judicial system as sharply as “tarikh pe tarikh”. Behind it lies a familiar story: cases stretching across years and even decades, files piling up faster ...

In most faiths judgment is delivered in the afterlife. India’s judiciary seems to have adopted a similar approach. Earlier this year in the central city of Bhopal, a newspaper revealed that a case ...

Two thousand days. That is how long Umar Khalid has spent in prison without trial, as of March 6, 2026. Those 2,000 days not only symbolize the erosion of India’s justice system but also expose the ...

A Section 34 petition is meant to test an arbitral award for limited, defined grounds, not to relitigate it. Justice Badar ...

India, June 9 -- Every discussion on judicial reform in India eventually arrives at the same destination: the shortage of judges. Court vacancies, pendency and delays dominate headlines and policy ...

On December 11, India’s supreme court upheld ending the constitutional privileges of the Indian-controlled province of Kashmir, a disputed region claimed by both India and Pakistan. The decision was a ...

The draft bars AI from deciding cases, granting bail, imposing sentences, assessing witness credibility, predicting judicial outcomes or assigning risk scores. (AI-generated image) On 3 June the ...