NEW DELHI, Feb 25: Voicing concern over the rising pendency of cases, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday said it is “not the fault of the judge but of the system”, and the government is taking more steps to address the issue. “We are moving towards the kind of system that should be there in the country,” he said while highlighting efforts to repeal redundant and obsolete laws, improve the infrastructure of courts and equip them with technology.The minister was speaking at a conference on ‘Sustainable Development in India: Evolution and Legal Perspective’ organised by the Law Commission of India at Mohanlal Sukhadia University in Udaipur.The minister said the number of pending cases has crossed 4.90 crore.“It is not a good thing to have so many cases pending in any country or society. It has several reasons… the condition of judges is also bad. One judge handles 50-60 cases in a single day. They dispose of so many cases but the number which comes daily is double.“The common man asks why the pendency is so high, but it is not known to people how much a judge works. It is not the fault of the judge, but of the system,” Rijiju said.He said that a major solution for reducing pendency is “technology” and the courts are being equipped with technologies across the country in order to make them paperless.
