The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed displeasure over the Allahabad High Court postponing a person’s bail plea 27 times. This matter is related to a fraud case, which is being investigated by the CBI. The Supreme Court considered it a violation of the right to personal liberty and granted bail to the accused Lakshya Tanwar. The bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) B.R. Gavai and Justice AG Masih said; – When there is a question of a person’s freedom and he has been in jail for four years, the court should not keep the petition pending. In fact, Lakshya has been booked under several sections of the IPC, including fraud, forgery and criminal conspiracy. Apart from this, sections 13 (1) (d) and 13 (2) of the Anti Corruption Law have also been imposed on him. Accused Lakshya has been in jail for almost 4 years. Petitioner Lakshya Tanwar’s lawyer Raja Chaudhary told the Supreme Court that his client has been in jail for three years, eight months and 24 days. Not only this, a hearing was also to be held in the Allahabad High Court today (May 22). On March 20, the Allahabad High Court had postponed the hearing Allahabad High Court had postponed the hearing on his bail plea on March 20 and directed the trial court to complete the trial proceedings as soon as possible, then the bail plea would be reconsidered. The High Court had taken a tough stand citing 33 cases already registered against the accused. Also, the CBI was directed to get the testimony of complainant Sanjay Kumar Yadav recorded on the same day and also complete his cross-examination, so that there is no delay. CBI opposed the bail plea Additional Solicitor General Raja Thackeray opposed the bail on behalf of the CBI. He said that the accused has charges in 33 cases. To this, lawyer Raja Chaudhary replied that 27 of these cases were registered after the arrest and he has got bail in these too. When the court asked how many witnesses have testified so far, Chaudhary told that out of a total of 365 witnesses, only 3 have testified. Justice Gavai made a sharp remark and asked that he has been in jail for four years, the High Court has postponed the hearing 27 times, so what can be expected for the 28th time? Now read how many pending cases are there in the courts… 83 thousand cases pending in the Supreme Court, the largest number till date
There are 82,831 cases pending in the Supreme Court, the highest court of the country. This is the largest number of pending cases till date. 27,604 pending cases alone have been registered within the last one year. According to the Times of India report, 38,995 new cases were registered in the Supreme Court in 2024. Of these, 37,158 cases were settled. The number of pending cases has increased 8 times in the last 10 years. Pending cases decreased in 2015 and 2017. At the same time, there were a total of 41 lakh pending cases in the High Court in 2014, which has now increased to 59 lakh. In the last 10 years, pending cases decreased only once. More than 5 crore cases are pending in all the courts of the country (Supreme Court, High Court, District and other courts). —————————————- Read this news related to court also… What is UP government doing to build 9 thousand courts? Jails are getting filled due to slow hearings ‘In the constitution, judiciary is the third organ of the state. This third organ has a pile of civil and criminal cases. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the infrastructure of the courts, for which attention should also be paid to arranging the necessary funds in the budget. With this comment, the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court has sought a reply from the UP government regarding the establishment of new courts. Read the full news…
