The latest government data has revealed that over 2.2 crore cases are pending in courts across the country.

The latest government data has revealed that over 2.2 crore cases are pending in courts across the country.

The latest data on the National Judicial Data Grid shows that, as on June 24 2016, 2,20,75,329 cases are pending in various courts.

Out of these, 31,45,059 (or 14.25 per cent of the total pending cases) have been categorised as “undated cases”. Any case for which the next date of hearing has not been assigned is called an undated case.

The data say that of the over 31 lakh undated cases, 21,75,750 are criminal cases, while 9,69,309 are civil cases.

Gujarat, according to the data available on the Grid, leads with 20.46 per cent undated cases, followed by West Bengal with 14.96 per cent cases. Madhya Pradesh has 13.13 per cent undated cases and Delhi 3.22 per cent. At a recent meeting of the Supreme Court e-committee, the Himachal Pradesh high court had suggested the introduction of “some sort of incentive” for reducing the number of undated cases. Ten per cent of the cases are over 10 years old. A total of 83,00,462 cases have been pending for less than two years.