A tsunami of vacancies is coming in India’s lower judiciary

A tsunami of vacancies is coming in India’s lower judiciary

Addressing a seminar in New Delhi in February 2022, then Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana said there was a need to both increase the number of judges in India, and to fill existing vacancies urgently.

Of course, he was speaking from his position as the ultimate insider, but according to our own calculations, India currently needs a huge number of judges to clear the backlog of cases pending in various courts. 

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