Ahmedabad: The real challenge before the judiciary is to address chronic cases which remain festering in courts, Chief Justice of India T S Thakur said today even as he stressed that disposing of smaller cases was like cleaning the house of the garbage littered around.
Addressing a gathering after inaugurating the Gujarat State Judicial Academy, Justice Thakur recalled that when he was the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana, he held Lok Adalats throughout the two states and disposed of 14 lakh cases.
“But then we thought that disposing of smaller cases is like holding a broom and cleaning the house of garbage lying around. The real challenge lies in addressing chronic cases which remain festering in the courts,” he said.
The CJI said, in order to address the issue, he then asked judges in the two states to provide particulars of 200 oldest civil and criminal cases.
