As many as 5.64 crore cases are pending across the Supreme Court, the 25 high courts, and district and subordinate courts, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal told the Rajya Sabha, citing data available on the National Judicial Data Grid.
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The SC has a backlog of over 96,000 cases, with more than 10,000 cases pending for over a decade. He also revealed that the SC has 26 cases pending for over 30 years and 558 cases pending for over two decades.