- Who
- Delhi High Court
- Where
- ()
- When
- 2010
According to an annual report for the Delhi High Court, India, by Chief Justice A P Shah, there is such a backlog of cases that it could take the court 466 years to clear. The court hears cases in an average time of four minutes and fifty-five seconds but has 700,000 cases waiting to be heard out of a national backlog reported by the United Nations Development Programme to be in the order of twenty million. The court has 629 civil cases and some seventeen criminal cases pending, which are over twenty years old.
