"About 36,000 cases of the State Government are
pending in both the Supreme Court and the Gauhati High Court." -- these are law suits that the state government of Assam filed against someone or other, or were filed against the government. Then there are other lawsuits that the citizens have filed against each other. The report only talks about the High Court and the Supreme Court. Remember there are lower courts also. So the situation is definitely dire. Does anyone how the numbers compare against the number of lawsuits in a typical american state, say for example New York? I tried to get some information via the internet but did not get anything comprehensive.
pending in both the Supreme Court and the Gauhati High Court." -- these are law suits that the state government of Assam filed against someone or other, or were filed against the government. Then there are other lawsuits that the citizens have filed against each other. The report only talks about the High Court and the Supreme Court. Remember there are lower courts also. So the situation is definitely dire. Does anyone how the numbers compare against the number of lawsuits in a typical american state, say for example New York? I tried to get some information via the internet but did not get anything comprehensive.
Now, the question arises how many of these lawsuits are frivolous. Is it time for some tort reform in India? Litigation is a right provided in democracy. Is it being abused by the litigants?
The other question is - are there too many lawyers in Assam (and India) and what we are seeing is a proliferation of the legal industry?
Dilip
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Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chan Mahanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Netters:
The following from tonight's Sentinel.
Do people wonder what this means? It means that the means of democratic
societies for holding people accountable do not work. It is an
example of a dysfunctional govt. Something that direly needs
reforming, or so one might think. What do our friends think? Am I
proposing something subversive, as I get charged for when, I present
such ideas?
cm
36,000 cases pending against State Govt
By a Staff Reporter
GUWAHATI, April 8: About 36,000 cases of the State Government are
pending in both the Supreme Court and the Gauhati High Court.
Disclosing this on the floor of the House today, Assam Law Minister
Dinesh Prasad Goala, in reply to a query from Independent MLA
Pabindra Deka, said that the Government had already appointed
contact officers in the various departments concerned for the speedy
disposal of these cases.
Goala said that as many as 35,780 cases are pending at the High
Court while a total of 146 cases are waiting to be settled at the
Supreme Court. The Government has incurred an expenditure of Rs
42.38 lakh on lawyers' expenses, the minister said, adding that an
amount of Rs 69.90 lakh has been incurred on litigation at the
Supreme Court.
On the other hand, Minister of State for Home Rockybul Hussain
informed the House that data relating to the pending cases against
ministers and MLAs was still in the process of being collected. In
reply to another question from Deka, Hussain said that though the
Government had earlier decided to withdraw 39 pending cases against
ministers and MLAs, the decision had since been revoked.
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