Peaking over 88,000 cases, pendency continues to plague Supreme Court

Sagging in the Supreme Court reached the highest level of all time in the last years of 88,417;

The National Judiciary Data Network (NJDG) showed that the court has 69,553 civil cases and 18,864 criminal issues that are currently waiting. In August, the files of the new cases exceeded the disposal rate. Only 7,080 cases were filed in the Apex court in August. In August, 5,667 cases, ie 80.04% of the cases filed in August, disposed of.

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The climbing in the stemmac, despite the Court’s decision to make more stalls in the long summer recess in order to reduce the caselog of the chief justice.

CJI, this year from May 23 to July, the summer holidays ‘partial working days’ renamed. The CJI and the three senior judges of the court presided over the first bench trial cases during the summer holiday. A total of 21 benches sat during the ‘partial working days’ until the court was reopened in July.

52,630 cases were filed in 2025, 46.309, approximately 88%, appointed for a year, which saw two Chief judges of India, a third Justice Kant, is expected to swear in the late November 2025.

Last year, he had a climb similar to the summit of more than 2024, 82,000 cases. The increase in sagging in court continues from Justice Dy Chandrachud to Justice Gavai, despite the consecutive justice that takes care to maintain its minimum level, even though it is not zero in the upper court.

The permanent increase in the accumulated work has been a perennial phenomenon since Pandemic years and especially since 2023. Justice Khanna and Justice Gavai, the successors of the highest judge, pioneered the government to the government immediately to recommend the names of the Apex court judges.

The past justice and even college decisions in the past raised the issue of “Great Work Load”. The November 2023 college decision mentioned the fact that the court could not even meet a gap, taking into account the cases of cases because of the time ”.

“The workload of the judges has increased significantly. Considering the above, it has become necessary to ensure that the court has the power of full judges without leaving a gap.”

In recent months, the government has seen that the college recommendations have usually approved without delay within 48 hours without delay. Nevertheless, the accumulated mound continues to rise constantly.