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The full fig of vacant posts of judges successful territory courts crossed India is 4,855 and astir 4.80 crore cases are pending successful little courts crossed the country, Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal informed the Rajya Sabha connected Thursday (December 4, 2025). He said determination were 297 vacancies successful assorted High Courts.
Sharing pending cases successful the Supreme Court successful the past 5 years, Mr. Meghwal, successful a written reply, informed that 90,694 cases were nether proceedings successful the apex tribunal arsenic of December 1, 2025 . The pendency was 70,239 successful 2021.
Responding to a question by subordinate from Punjab, Vikramjit Singh Sahney, who had asked for vacancies successful assorted courts crossed India and the timeline by erstwhile the authorities was readying to capable vacant positions of judges successful assorted courts, the Minister said filling of vacant positions of judges successful territory and subordinate courts was the responsibility of the High Courts and the State governments. For the Supreme Court and High Courts, vacancies were being filled continuously successful collaboration of the enforcement and judiciary.
Uttar Pradesh tops
Uttar Pradesh tops the charts among the States and national territories with maximum vacancies of judicial officers successful territory and subordinate courts, according to the information shared by the Minister. Uttar Pradesh has 1,055 vacancies successful the little judiciary followed by 535 vacancies successful Gujarat and 384 vacancies successful Madhya Pradesh.
Even successful the High Courts, the Allahabad High Court has the maximum fig of vacant posts — 60 — and the tribunal has 11,66,971 cases pending, maximum crossed India. The little courts successful Uttar Pradesh person 1,13,05,841 cases pending, erstwhile again, the highest successful the country.
Maharashtra is simply a State wherever vacancies of judicial officers successful territory and subordinate courts remained astatine 250 since 2021.
