India has nearly 5 crore pending court cases. For millions of ordinary citizens, justice is not delayed — it is effectively denied.
A property dispute that outlasts the people who started it. An undertrial who spends years in jail before his case is even heard. A divorce that consumes the best years of both parties' lives. These are not rare exceptions in India's justice system, they are everyday realities.
Delays in Court Cases in India is a clear, data-driven guide to one of the country's most urgent but least understood crises.
What this book covers:
Why India's courts are overwhelmed — and why the problem keeps getting worse
How property disputes became the single largest category clogging the system
Why 70% of India's prison population are undertrials whose guilt has never been proven
How police inaction, government litigation, and corrupt local bodies quietly add years to cases
The tactics litigants use to deliberately delay proceedings — and how courts can stop them
How PILs, designed to serve the public interest, are increasingly being weaponised
What AI, digital courts, and the e-Courts initiative can realistically achieve
How the Mediation Act, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and other recent reforms are reshaping the landscape
What India can learn from Singapore, the UK, Brazil, and the United States
Practical recommendations any government serious about reform could implement today
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Siva Prasad Bose, Joy Bose
Siva Prasad Bose is a retired electrical engineer and writer of introductory guides on aspects of law in India. He is retired after many years of service in Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL, formerly UPSEB). He received his engineering degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and has a law degree from Meerut University, Meerut. His interests lie in the fields of family law, civil law, law of contracts, and areas of law related to power electricity related issues.
Joy Bose is a data scientist and software engineer by profession.
