Chronic pendency of appeals in Allahabad HC

Chronic pendency of appeals in Allahabad HC

New Delhi:21.06.2020

If one had filed an appeal against conviction for an offence in Allahabad High Court before 1990, there are chances that it could still be in a labyrinthine queue of cases awaiting a decision.

The Supreme Court last week came across statistics on chronic pendency of appeals in ten high courts across India and found that Allahabad HC has the dubious distinction of accounting for 14,207, or 98%, of a total of 14,484 appeals that are pending adjudication for more than 30 years.

A bench of Justices L N Rao and S Ravindra Bhat found that over 33,000 appeals were pending in these 10 HCs for a period between 20 to 30 years, and again Allahabad HC had the lion's share accounting for nearly 20,000 of them.

The appeals waiting their turn to be heard for the last 10 to 20 years numbered at 2,35,914, of which 88,732 were in Allahabad HC. TNN