Speak to some of your lawyer friends and they are likely to tell you that law is a big waste of paper!

Everyday there are lakhs of cases that are heard in Indian courts across levels. Each of these cases have hundreds of documents that are printed on thousands of sheets of paper that are simply discarded after a single use.

We, at The Quint, did the math and we found that India’s judiciary uses approximately 11 BILLION SHEETS in a year. How? Let’s take a look.