More than three lakh cases are pending in High Courts across the country in connection with the appeals related claims on motor accidents. The highest pending cases are in Allahabad High Court with more than 55,000 cases, followed by more than 46,000 cases in Karnataka High Court.
According to the data given by law Ministry to Parliament, for the past three years as many as 3,03,373 appeals are pending in High Courts against the claims awarded by Motor Accident Tribunals across India. The data given by the ministry gives the snail pace in disposing rate on these cases. Only 45,915 cases were disposed during this period, while the pending number of pending cases goes above three lakh.lowest number of appeals against the claims is from the High Courts of North Eastern states and Jammu and Kashmir. Among these states highest number of pending cases is from Gauhati High Court with 952 cases, followed by Jammu and Kashmir with 663 cases.
Among the States with highest number of appeals pending, Allahabad and Karnataka are followed by Punjab and Haryana High Court with 35,902 cases and Rajasthan with 35,417 appeals against claims awarded on motor accidents. The High Courts of Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are having large volume of pending number of cases 27,342 and 26,604 respectively. Madras High Court is also having more than 17,000 cases pending. Kerala and Bombay High Courts are also having large number of appeals crossing above 10,000 pending cases for the past three years.