First women judge of Supreme Court
Meera Sahib Fatima Beevi was appointed judge of the Supreme Court in Oct 1989, the second woman in the world after Sandra Day O’Connor of the US to be appointed to his high office.
First HC judge
Shambhunath Pandit domiciled in Kolkata, was appointed judge at Kolkata on Feb 2, 1863. His tenure lasted till 1867.
First woman CJ (HC)
Justice Leila Seth, Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, was appointed Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh on August 5, 1991 and retired in 1993.
Youngest judge
Prasanta Behari Mukherjee (b July 30, 1910) was appointed a judge of the Calcutta High Court on Dec 24, 1948 when he was only 38 years. He served the High Court for 24 years and seven months.
Shortest term as CJ
Justice Rajendranath Aggarwal of the Delhi High Court held office as Chief Justice between August 16-21, 1987.
First mobile court
In a move to make judicial system accessible to remote and backward areas a mobile court was inaugurated in the Mewat district of Haryana on August 4, 2007. Set up in a bus, the mobile court moves from one place to another according to a well-prepared plan and schedule. Court sits fours days in a week at four different locations — Punhana, Shikrawa, Indana, Lohinga Kalan — and on two days, functions as a regular court at Ferozepur Jhirka. The concept is said to be a brainchild of former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
Delayed justice
The country's 21 High Courts had over 30 lakh cases and the subordinate courts across the country had over 2.63 crore cases pending with them by the end of 2006! About 2.5 lakh undertrials, whose guilt or innocence was yet to be ascertained, were languishing in various jails. Of these, 2,069 have spent more than five years in jail.
Allahabad High Court had 10,93,174 cases including 2,16,808 criminal and 8,76,366 civil cases pending as on Sept 30, 2006. The Madras High Court with 4,06,958 cases including 33,985 criminal and 3,72,973 civil cases, was the distant second, followed by the Bombay High Court with 3,62,949 pending cases.
Among the subordinate courts in various states, Uttar Pradesh was loaded with 46 lakh pending cases, followed by Maharashtra (41 lakh) and Gujarat (39 lakh).
The highest number of under trials in the country (15,784) was in Maharashtra, followed by Madhya Pradesh (15,777).
In the number of undertrials kept in jail for more than five years, Bihar topped with 628, followed by Delhi (344) and Punjab (334). Positively, the states of Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and Tripura had no prisoners waiting for trail for five years.
High Courts (HC) of India
There are 21 High Courts for 28 states, six union territories (UTs) and the National Capital Territory, with some serving more than one state or UT - the High Court of the Union Territory of Chandigarh also serves Punjab and Haryana, and the High Court in Guwahati serves Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh. The High Courts are institutionally independent of state legislatures and executives.
First HC judge
Shambhunath Pandit domiciled in Kolkata, was appointed judge at Kolkata on Feb 2, 1863. His tenure lasted till 1867.
First woman CJ (HC)
Justice Leila Seth, Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, was appointed Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh on August 5, 1991 and retired in 1993.
Youngest judge
Prasanta Behari Mukherjee (b July 30, 1910) was appointed a judge of the Calcutta High Court on Dec 24, 1948 when he was only 38 years. He served the High Court for 24 years and seven months.
Shortest term as CJ
Justice Rajendranath Aggarwal of the Delhi High Court held office as Chief Justice between August 16-21, 1987.
First mobile court
In a move to make judicial system accessible to remote and backward areas a mobile court was inaugurated in the Mewat district of Haryana on August 4, 2007. Set up in a bus, the mobile court moves from one place to another according to a well-prepared plan and schedule. Court sits fours days in a week at four different locations — Punhana, Shikrawa, Indana, Lohinga Kalan — and on two days, functions as a regular court at Ferozepur Jhirka. The concept is said to be a brainchild of former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam.
Delayed justice
The country's 21 High Courts had over 30 lakh cases and the subordinate courts across the country had over 2.63 crore cases pending with them by the end of 2006! About 2.5 lakh undertrials, whose guilt or innocence was yet to be ascertained, were languishing in various jails. Of these, 2,069 have spent more than five years in jail.
Allahabad High Court had 10,93,174 cases including 2,16,808 criminal and 8,76,366 civil cases pending as on Sept 30, 2006. The Madras High Court with 4,06,958 cases including 33,985 criminal and 3,72,973 civil cases, was the distant second, followed by the Bombay High Court with 3,62,949 pending cases.
Among the subordinate courts in various states, Uttar Pradesh was loaded with 46 lakh pending cases, followed by Maharashtra (41 lakh) and Gujarat (39 lakh).
The highest number of under trials in the country (15,784) was in Maharashtra, followed by Madhya Pradesh (15,777).
In the number of undertrials kept in jail for more than five years, Bihar topped with 628, followed by Delhi (344) and Punjab (334). Positively, the states of Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and Tripura had no prisoners waiting for trail for five years.
High Courts (HC) of India
There are 21 High Courts for 28 states, six union territories (UTs) and the National Capital Territory, with some serving more than one state or UT - the High Court of the Union Territory of Chandigarh also serves Punjab and Haryana, and the High Court in Guwahati serves Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh. The High Courts are institutionally independent of state legislatures and executives.
- Currently, the total strength of HCs is 749, with Allahabad High Court leading with 95 judges.
- There were a total of 33,68,621 pending cases in the country's HCs, of which Allahabad HC alone accounted for 6,97,995.
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