Over 5 crore court cases pending: Govt

Over 10,000 cases were added to the Supreme Court’s pendency list in the last five months, which has increased from 69,766 cases as on July 1 to 80,040 on December 1. It had taken three years previously, from March 2020 to July 2023, to add 10,000 cases to the SC pendency. Law minister Arjun Ram Meghwal told Lok Sabha on Friday that the 25 high courts had more than 61.7 lakh cases pending while district and subordinate courts had over 4.4 crore cases, taking the total pendency in all courts in the country to over 5 crore cases.