Legal system collapsing under Pending Cases: Supreme Court 55,000 + High Court 37 Lakh + Lower Courts 2.6 Crore… https://t.co/5Wa3ZHrsjI — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) 1521866482000

Mr Rahul Gandhi, maintaining your track record your team has failed you once again by not doing their homework. Ave… https://t.co/s0IW9Hc6tq — Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) 1521894484000

Justice K M Joseph, overturned President’s rule in Uttarakhand in 2016. When his name was proposed for the Supreme… https://t.co/f8kbPOT9zx — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) 1521888695000

In 2016 a record 126 High Court Judges were appointed in one year- highest since independence. Since May 2014 NDA… https://t.co/MaUSo6wU3K — Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) 1521894760000

Mr Rahul Gandhi, pendency is the legacy which UPA Govt of 10years had given us where judicial infrastructure develo… https://t.co/DcxpReRoah — Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) 1521894832000

Mr. Rahul Gandhi, the notice given to Cambridge Analytica for Data Manipulation has naturally worried you. Angry, f… https://t.co/KiLPfPLl58 — Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) 1521894257000

NEW DELHI: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at the Modi government over huge pendency of cases in courts and shortage of judges, charges that the Centre has strongly denied."Legal system collapsing under Pending Cases: Supreme Court 55,000+, High Court 37 Lakh+, Lower Courts 2.6 Crore+. Yet, a staggering 400 High Court and 6,000 Lower Court judges not appointed, while Law Minister preoccupied peddling fake news," Rahul said in a tweet using the hashtag "JudiciaryDemonetised".Union Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad countered the allegation, while also taking a jibe at Rahul's "team" for not researching the subject matter properly."Mr Rahul Gandhi, maintaining your track record your team has failed you once again by not doing their homework. Average appointments of High Court Judges under UPA-1 was 86 per year, and in UPA-2 it was 79 per year. Under NDA it has been 109 per year," Prasad pointed out in a tweet.The Gandhi scion also took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over delay in appointment of judges to the Supreme Court."Justice K M Joseph, overturned President's rule in Uttarakhand in 2016. When his name was proposed for the Supreme Court, Modi ji's ego was hurt. Approval of over 100 judges, cleared for the Supreme Court and various High Courts are now on hold (sic)," Rahul said in another tweet.Rebutting the charge, Prasad remarked that judicial pendency was the legacy of the erstwhile UPA regime. In contrast, the NDA dispensation was turning things around by "creating more infrastructure, more digitization and greater technology application in disposal of cases," he said."In 2016 a record 126 High Court Judges were appointed in one year- highest since independence. Since May 2014 NDA Govt appointed 17 SC Judges, 326 HC judges and made 304 additional judges permanent and also created 173 new posts of High Court Judges, compared to 20 created in UPA 2," Prasad said.Rahul's salvo came after Prasad accused the Congress of hiring the services of controversial data firm Cambridge Analytica , which stands accused of illegally harvesting personal data from Facebook.The charge has been denied by the Congress, which instead accused the BJP of using the services of the disgraced firm.Prasad recently alleged that the Congress has used the services of Cambridge Analytica and said several media reports about the opposition party using the services of the firm had appeared in October and November last year and it never denied those stories till the BJP raised the issue."Mr Rahul Gandhi, the notice given to Cambridge Analytica for Data Manipulation has naturally worried you. Angry, frustrated and apprehensive, you are now dragging the judiciary. Deeply reprehensible," the Union IT minister said in a tweet today.The Facebook data scandal erupted after a whistleblower revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to Trump's 2016 campaign, accessed personal data from 50 million users of the website without their knowledge, and might have kept that data even after the social media giant told the company to delete it.