🔆 Judiciary Data

📍 Total Pending Cases in Supreme Court
✅ 83,000 (34% cases less than 1 year old)

📍 Case Disposal Rate of Supreme Court
✅ 92.6%

📍 Total Pending Cases in High Courts
✅ ~ 60 lakh (75% cases more than 1 year old)

📍 High Courts Sanctioned Strength
✅ 1114, current = 968, vacancies ~ 150

📍 Total Pending Cases in District & Lower Judiciary
✅ ~ 4.5 crore (65% cases more than 1 year old)

📍 Judges to Population Ratio in India
✅ 21/million (120th Law Commission recommended 50/million)

📍 Vacancies in Judiciary as of November 2024
✅ More than 5,600 vacancies (2 in SC, 364 in HCs, 5245 in lower courts)

📍 PILs Filed Before the SC
✅ Consistently increased from 2014 (~30,000 PILs) to 2021 (~1,14,000 PILs)


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