Law Minister Kiren Rijiju informed Lok Sabha that as per data available on National Judicial Data Grid, the total number of pending cases in High Courts (6050600) & District Courts (42718466) are 48769066.
He mentioned the number of cases where Government is party including the estimated pending Criminal Cases are as under: -
|
S. No. |
Courts |
Criminal Cases |
|
1 |
High Court |
1699622 |
|
2 |
District & Taluka Courts |
31847225 |
As per data available on the LIMBS portal, following Ministries /Departments are the top five litigants:-
- Ministry of Finance
- Ministry of Railways
- Ministry of Defence
- Ministry of Labour& Employment
- Ministry of Home Affairs
Law Minister elaborated the vision of LIMBS Ver.2, which is ‘to be a single platform for Litigation of GoI along with establishment of a synchronized regime for monitoring of Litigation’ across all Ministries / Departments of Government of India.
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