While the average pendency of a case before a High Court in the country is 1,098 days — three years — it is marginally lower in the Karnataka High Court with an average pendency of 1,039 days. On an average, all 30 judges in the Karnataka High Court have a shocking 52 hearings per working day.
These are some of the interesting facts thrown up by an integrated database of backlog cases in Indian courts put together for the first time in the country by Bengaluru-based data analytics firm Daksh.
The database is dynamically updated every day by gleaning data from multiple High Court websites across the country. However, of the 24 High Courts, six don’t update data in a compatible format, limiting the database to 18 high courts. While there are over 16,000 lower courts in the country, the database has a representational sample of 358 lower courts across various States.
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Harish Narasappa, co-founder of Daksh, said that while the judiciary was seriously seized on the issue of the crisis brewing within, they had no data or tool to resolve it. “The open database is a small step towards approaching the issue armed with data analytics. We have tied up with the National Law Universities, and we are also working with the Indian Institutes of Management, who can address the issue from the management perspective. It is an open database on which we need more people to work on,” he said.
The database can be accessed atwww.dakshlegal.in