Data sources on Indian judiciary

Data sources on the justice system are either not available, or essentially useless. Comparative international statistics are almost out of the question.

Some sources

National Court Management Systems – Policy and Action Plan (2012) – outdated

National Judicial Data Grid (This provides data from lower courts. Total cases pending in district courts as at 17/08/2016: 22,351,063 =2.2 crores 

State of the Indian Judiciary report (2016) – available online.

International comparisons

International Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice

WHAT DOES THE WORLD SPEND ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE?

ARTICLES

Justice Delivery in India – A Snapshot of Problems and Reforms – Bibek Debroy

‘District courts will take 10 years to clear cases’

How A Third of India’s Judiciary Just Does Not Exist

HANDBOOK FOR COURTS

Practice and procedure of the Supreme Court

Further, these are detailed rules of the Supreme Court. [An OCRd text version, here]

Rules of the Bombay High Court.

LISTS OF INDIAN LAWYERS with EMAIL IDs

Supreme Court Bar Council – here and here (2016)

Bombay High Court – here