The Delhi High Court, on an average, spends just over four minutes on each case per day, which costs them Rs 15,678 per minute. The annual report released by the court suggested there has been a rise in cost of each case from financial year 2010-11 to 2011-12 by nearly thousand rupees.
Expenditure analysis excluded time spent by the judges dictating reserved judgements in their chambers and preparing cases for the next day as well as time spent for correcting and signing orders in cases listed for hearing each day before a court. On an average per bench dealt with 65 cases till 2012 while it had 56 cases in the previous year.
The report released by Chief Justice D Murugesan claims that the court has been able to reduce the total number of cases from 1,18,855 in April 2011 to 1,15,512 by the end of March 2012. The main cases were reduced from 66,432 to 63,012 denoting a reduction in pendency by 5.14 per cent.
The court disposed of 1,22,141 cases in 2011-12 while the number of cases filed that year was 1,18,798. The court achieved this feat despite the fact that it did not function at its full sanctioned strength of 48, average number of Judges in 2011-12 were only 36, 12 less than the sanctioned strength, the report states.