Estimating Time to Clear Pendency of Cases in High Courts in India using Linear Regression on NJDG Data

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  • Kshitiz Verma JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur, India
  • Anshu Musaddi The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India
  • Ansh Mittal The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India
  • Anshul Jain The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India

Abstract

Indian Judiciary is suffering from burden of millions of cases that are lying pending in its courts at all the levels. In this paper, we analyse the data that we have collected from the HC-NJDG portal on 229 randomly chosen days spanning a period of more than two and a half years, starting August, 2017 to March, 20201. We show that (1) the pending cases in most of the high courts are increasing linearly with time, (2) the case load on judges of some high courts is more than a hundred times than the others, and (3) the number of pending cases have to be taken into account while deciding the number of judges in a high court.

 

 

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2024-04-02

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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2024)

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