The document proposes solutions to reduce case backlogs in India's judicial system. It suggests classifying cases by type of crime and referring national security cases directly to the Supreme Court. It also recommends forming a coordinating authority between courts and investigative committees. As a concrete solution, it proposes establishing fast track courts grouped by crime type and designating days for public interest litigation. Analyzing hypothetical data for a city and scaling it up to national level, it estimates fast track courts could reduce average case resolution time from 250 to 178 days and ultimately save around 60 years of time to clear current backlogs. Risks include lack of funding, experienced judges and difficulty classifying the large volume of existing cases.

1. ENSURING
EXPEDITIOUS AND TIMELY
JUSTICE TO ALL
 SAKAR CHIPLUNKAR
 AKASH MOHNE
 SHASHANK BAGHEL
 ABHIJEET SINGH RATHORE
 DEV IYER
Submitted by :-
College name:- Institute of Engineering and
Technology
(IET-DAVV,INDORE)

2. Introduction
Case 1:- In December 6,1993 a prominent Indian actor was trailed for illegal arms
possession under arms act
March 21,2013,the actor was found guilty and sentenced for 5 years of
imprisonment.
Case 2:-In December 2001, Indian parliament attacked , case filed on
November 2002.
November 9 2013-Afzal Guru found guilty and was executed after
11 years.
Case 3:-April 30 1999,a journalist Jessica Lal shot dead. Including a political
leader there were many suspects.
February 21 2006-the case was pending in Delhi High Court for 6 years
until the court decided to proceed the case on a fast track basis , the
hearing went on every day for 25 days , Manu Sharma was found
guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment on December 20,2006.

3. Getting rid of backlog
classes
The cases on the basis of the intensity of the crimes.
Cases involving national issues may be referred directly to
supreme court.
Formation of an authority which coordinates effectively
between the court and investigation committee.
Implementation model
Setting up of fast track courts in various constituencies.
Grouping various fast track courts on the basis type of crime.
Specifying some days for public interest litigation(PIL).
Advantages
Solving greater number of cases in lesser amount of time .
 Speedy and effective justice will result in betterment of society.
Appointment of more lawyers will reduce unemployment.
All the above cases mentioned were those cases in which the culprit was clearly
detected , but due to political pressure or for vote bank politics or etc reasons the
decision of court was deliberately put on a halt for years.
Overview of the basic idea:-

4. Getting rid of backlog cases :-
Classification of cases:-
Social cases
Economic
cases
Cases
concerning
national issues
As the filtering of cases has begun this will catalyse the judicial process.This should be
done with respect to type of crime prevalent in the area. For instance Dhanbad has the
highest cases of kidnapping and extortion, Delhi has the highest no. of rape cases.
Social Cases Economic Cases Cases concerning national
issues
Number 15030232 3540259 1429509
High RiskAreas Jharkhand ,Arunachal ,
Tripura , Chhattisgarh
Maharashtra, Delhi ,West
Bengal
Delhi, Jammu, Jharkhand,
Assam
% increase in past decade 9.65 12.36 3.35

5. Cases concerning national issues referred to supreme
court:-
Cases due to which there was a direct threat to the nation involving terrorist
activities , scams , if any political authority involved should be directly handed over
to the supreme authority of jurisdiction. Today we have the facility to file our case
in lower court , if found guilty then we move to higher court and so on. By directly
applying such type of cases in supreme authority will result in minimisation of time
consumption , which can effectively be put to solve other cases
Coordination between court and investigation committee:-
One of the reasons that delay the jurisdiction of court is miscommunication between
court and investigating committee . An independent committee comprising of formal
decision making people should be formed which should act as an intermediate between
court and investigating committee.
This committee will study all the cases and analyse the evidences corresponding to the
case . If found substantial the committee itself can reshuffle the order of trial of
cases , this will lead in better output from the existing courts.
Two Striking points of our concrete solutions

6. Concrete solutions
Fast Track Courts
INTRODUCTION:- Fast track courts , as the name suggests , are a remedy for expeditious and timely justice . in
the past decade 1732 fast track courts have been setup till date , but still we lack to give justice to this nation of
121 crore people.
INITIATIVE:- Here is a fictitious example for the entire implementation of above concept.
Let’s consider a city XYZ , with a population of about 10,00,000.In the past 30 years ,20,000 cases have been
registered in the sessions court of of XYZ. Out of these 2500 cases were given verdict. Rest 17500 cases were
pending.A rough approximation of the type of cases in XYZ can be seen below
Social cases Economic cases Cases concerning
national issues
Number 15523 3898 579
Cases solved 1675 623 202
AverageTime per
Case(days)
250 214 176

7. Going through the above calculations an estimated amount of time required to solve the no. of cases
is approx. 75 years.
These statistics portray the city’s jurisdiction analogous to present India . Our model is a step towards
betterment of this system.To improve the existing judicial system we have applied our above
concept. Let’s have a view….
For a population of 1000000 people we will set up 3 fast track courts.
Details of fast track court
Each fast track court will comprise of a bench of 3 judges and a justice.These judges will be
appointed by the governor along with the justice of sessions court.
An approx fund of each court including the infrastructure, salary, miscellaneous will be
5 crores.
Operation of each court:-
Court 1: Dealing with the social cases
Court 2: Dealing with economic cases
Court 3: Dealing with cases concerned to national issues
Over edge of these courts over the traditional courts will be their coordination with our
committee . As this committee will be in contact even with the investigating agency
it will proceed those cases for verdict which have received sufficient evidences. As the
committee comprises of ex-judges they will handle the reshuffling of cases for jurisdiction.
This process will further enhance the speed of judicial process

8. Lets have a analysis on two situations:
1st scenario – without fast track courts
In this situation the expenditure of time and resources needed can be understood from
the following graph:-
2nd scenario – with fast track courts:
With introduction of the courts and the committee the resources required will be
minimised to a greater extent.
0
100
200
300
Social cases Economic cases cases concerning national
issues
Average time
per case
0
100
200
Social cases Economic cases cases concerning national issues
Average time
per case
Thus with above calculations the time reduced with introduction of fast track court will
be around 50 years i.e. 25 years of minimisation

9. . Analogy of the city XYZ with India
The city XYZ can be considered as a smaller module of our nation.The population and the cases are at a
broader aspect. In this analysis if no. of cases considered at the level of our country can be very well seen with
situation of our country at present. The analysis for a hypothetical town and its comparison with Indian
scenario is shown :-
Social cases Economic cases Cases concerning national
issues
Number 18782830 4716580 700590
Cases solved 2026750 753830 244420
AverageTime per Case
without fast track courts
(days)
250 214 176
AverageTime per Case with
fast track courts (days)
178 134 97
**All the calculations are pertain to the above mentioned data of city XYZ on the nation’s level.
On the collection and analysis of all data it was seen that on India’s level the time reduction would be
around 60 years. Plenty amount of time to direct a country’s future to brightness.

10. Risks and challenges:-
 Funding of this model through government can be a
hindrance.
Since many committees will come into existence , lack of
experienced judges will be a major problem.
Since there are more than 2 crore pending cases , classification
of each and every case will be cumbersome.
It should be seen that the committee which is formed is
ensured independence , but must be under direct control of
Supreme Court.
For transparency the committee members should be
answerable to common people through RTI act.

11. References:
1:- Deccan Chronicle reports
2:- Fast track courts by Dinkar Shukla
http://pib.nic.in/feature/feyr2001/fmay2001/f010520012.html
3:-Case study from Wikipedia
4:- http://courtnic.nic.in/