Study says High Court judges get just 5-6 minutes to decide cases.

For the first time, a study has quantitatively analysed the work pressure on judges and the results are shocking. Study says a judge in a high court spends less than five minutes on an average hearing a case.
According to the study conducted by Daksh, a Bengaluru based non-government organisation that studies judicial performance, “The most relaxed high court judges in the country have 15-16 minutes to hear a case, while the busiest have just about 2.5 minutes to hear a case and on average they have approximately 5-6 minutes to decide a case.”
For instance, in the Calcutta High Court, there are 163 cases listed before a judge on an average day and just over five and half hours are spent hearing cases. The judge therefore gets around 2 minutes over each case. Similarly,given the huge volume of cases  listed before them, judges in the High Courts of Patna, Hyderabad, Jharkhand and Rajasthan get 2-3 minutes on each case per day. While in Allahabad, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa they spend 4-6 minutes.
The study has analysed  19 lakh cases and 95 lakh hearings from 21 High Courts from January 2015 to the present.
Study also says, as of April 1, 2016, there are 594 judges in High Courts and 25 in the Supreme Court, which adds up to 619 judges in the higher judiciary for a population of over 1.25 billion people. Overall, the judge population ratio in India is way below the desired level.
According to the 2011 census, there are just 16.8 judges(at all levels) per million population.
According to the Daksh study, the scale of the problem can be gauged  from the fact that it takes on an average 1,141 days to dispose of a case in High Courts and 2,184 days in District Courts.

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