India's Supreme Court Faces 10,000-Year-Long Backlog, 80,000 High Court Cases

The Indian government is telling Parliament that a lot of court cases are still waiting to be decided.

The top court, called the Supreme Court, has more than 10,000 cases that have been pending for more than ten years.

In the lower courts, called high courts, there are more than 80,000 cases that have been waiting for over thirty years.

The law minister, Arjun Ram Meghwal, gave these numbers to the Rajya Sabha, which is one of the two houses of Parliament.

He wrote a reply last week to share the figures.

This shows that the courts are very busy and many people have to wait a long time for justice.

The problem is happening across 25 high courts in India.

The government wants to bring attention to this backlog so that steps can be taken to speed up the process.

The goal is to make sure that people get their cases heard sooner.