{"id":1015425,"date":"2026-06-18T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015425"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:59:48","slug":"justice-delayed-before-justice-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/justice-delayed-before-justice-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice delayed before justice begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s judicial pendency crisis is often described through staggering numbers. More than 4.5 crore cases are pending before district courts, over 70 lakh cases await adjudication in various High Courts, and tens of thousands remain pending before the Supreme Court. These figures routinely trigger calls for more judges, more courts and greater infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>While all these demands are legitimate, they often overlook a more fundamental problem. The real crisis is not merely that cases take years to conclude. It is that in far too many cases, years pass before the court even begins the substantive task of deciding the dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s judicial pendency crisis is often described through staggering numbers. More than 4.5 crore cases are pending before district courts, over 70 lakh cases await adjudication in various High Courts, and tens of thousands remain pending before the Supreme Court. These figures routinely trigger calls for more judges, more courts and greater infrastructure. While all these demands are legitimate, they often overlook a more fundamental problem. The real crisis is not merely that cases take years to conclude. It is that in far too many cases, years pass before the court even begins the substantive task of deciding the dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015440,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015425\/revisions\/1015440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}