India is grappling with a massive crisis that strikes at the core of justice — an overwhelmed judicial system burdened by an astonishing backlog of over 50 million criminal and civil cases. This ...

The Supreme Court plans to implement Artificial Intelligence for case listing and bench allocation, reducing human involvement. The decision aims to address issues of outdated technology and prolonged ...

In most faiths judgment is delivered in the afterlife. India’s judiciary seems to have adopted a similar approach. Earlier this year in the central city of Bhopal, a newspaper revealed that a case ...

Judicial system must work like hospitals, with same spirit of service: CJI ...

As of January 31, 2026, the e-Courts project has digitised more than 660.36 crore pages of court records, including legacy documents.

The Indian government is advancing the judiciary's digital transformation through the e-Courts project. Now in its third phase with a Rs 7,210 crore budget, it aims for fully paperless courts, ...

The revised chapter, titled 'The Role of the Judiciary in Our Society', goes beyond explaining the hierarchy of courts, and addresses challenges faced by the judicial system.

India harbors an ambitious dream: to ascend to the status of a first-world economic power by 2047, coinciding with a century of independence. Yet, this aspiration is severely hampered by a legal ...

The CJI stated that AI would be utilised to achieve speedy, affordable, and true justice, adding that the apex court's research centre had been rejuvenated to identify and address reasons behind the ...

Sandhya Fuchs receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the Wenner Gren Foundation and the Swiss National Fund On a crisp winter morning in February 2023, I meet one of my South Delhi neighbours, a ...

MUMBAI, Feb 7 (Reuters) - India's top opposition leader questioned the country's main election body on Friday over what he said were suspect electoral rolls in the richest Indian state. Rahul Gandhi, ...