Reduce number of pending cases.

It is high time to take drastic steps to clear pending cases in all courts in the country. Then only the root cause of corruption could be identified and the law, as an instrument of social change, should help people achieve all that they longed for in society.

Whenever there is a dispute people often approach a lower court. The lower court then issues a verdict in favour of one party depending on the merits and that is too after 5-6 years. The aggrieved then approaches the high court and there the case lies indefinitely unattended and takes a natural death unless the aggrieved takes interest in bringing the case before the court. This must end. There must be an effort to put an end to this practice and every case should be attended in its due course. The cases should be heard by the judges in accordance with the date of filling and no case should be prolonged indefinitely to take a natural death.

It is a practice among some parties including government agencies to file an appeal before high court when there is a lower court verdict against them. This is often intended to harass the opposite party and to exploit the benefit of long delay in the high court. The parties know the delay or natural death of such cases in the high court and thus they are least interested in the settling the dispute. So it is necessary to have legislations to reduce the number of pending cases in all courts in the country.

K A Solaman