Delhi HC ‘zero-pendency’ project to reduce load on lower courts

A SPECIAL committee under the Delhi High Court is trying to find out how long a case will take to be decided by lower courts if judges are not overburdened. The committee is running a pilot project to assess how to run lower courts in the capital with ‘zero-pendency’. Currently, 13 judges (one for each district of Delhi) are part of the project and are adjudicating different types of cases. The scheme was launched on January 2. According to the committee, the objective behind setting up these courts is to study the actual real time ‘flow of cases’ from date of institution to final disposal.