Thread by @BloombergQuint

To get a sense of the state of delay and decay in the Indian judiciary consider this one factoid.

Over two-thirds of the country’s 4.78 lakh prisoners are under trial, yet to be convicted.

Read @ShankkarAiyar in #BQOpinion.

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@ShankkarAiyar The fact that India needs more courts and judges, has been known for decades.

Inadequacy of funding is worsened by inertia in staffing.

Of the 1,080 sanctioned posts for judges in 25 High Courts, nearly 40% are vacant, finds @ShankkarAiyar. #BQOpinion.

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@ShankkarAiyar India’s legal landscape is littered with laws; many of them so archaic that texts are unavailable for citizens to be informed of, writes @ShankkarAiyar.

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@ShankkarAiyar #BQOpinion | The average pendency of economic cases in high courts is estimated at 4.3 years in high courts and that of tax cases is six years, writes @ShankkarAiyar.

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@ShankkarAiyar Labour laws have been codified but regulatory cholesterol persists.

MSMEs face over 60,000 possible compliances and over 3,000 filings, @ShankkarAiyar writes in his #BQOpinion data dive on the Indian legal system.
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@ShankkarAiyar “For tryst with justice, the argumentative Indian, cohabiting in a landscape of litigious governments, must traverse through persistent pendency immortalised by the line, Tareek Pe Tareek…, in a Bollywood blockbuster.”

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