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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, chiefly liable for law mentation and matters of urgent transgression appeals, is burdened with much than 3,500 nationalist involvement litigations (PILs), 698 of them pending for implicit 10 years.
The oldest 1 has not been adjudicated for 42 years. Most of these PILs are related to environmental, onshore laws and cultivation tenancy matters, according to accusation shared by the instrumentality ministry.The highest fig of PILs — 570 — were admitted by the law tribunal successful 2025, further clogging the SC’s docket of implicit 80,000 cases. In the past 5 years SC has managed to dispose of 1,872 PILs, but not capable to wide the backlog.
Law curate Arjun Ram Meghwal informed Lok Sabha past week that the full fig of PILs pending earlier SC arsenic connected March 10 are 3,525. The mean clip taken for disposal of PILs is not known. Meghwal said the highest fig of pending PILs filed since 2014 see 570 filed successful 2025, followed by 347 filed successful 2019, 306 successful 2020 and 293 successful 2026 among others.The oldest PIL pending successful the apex tribunal for adjudication was filed successful 1984, 2 others pending since 1985 — each 3 are M C Mehta Vs Union of India, 2 related to biology laws and 1 of lodging and gathering municipal laws.
Two PILs of contempt of court-related taxable — Mohd Hashim (deceased) successful Iqbal Ansar Vs Sri Kalyan Singh, and Aslam @Bhure Vs S B Chowhan — are pending since 1995 and 1996, respectively.Many of those who filed these PILs person passed distant adjacent arsenic their matters stay pending adjudication.For lawsuit successful the lawsuit of Mohd Hashim arsenic mentioned supra and successful the lawsuit of Haradhan Roy (deceased) Vs Union of India, a PIL of 1997; and 1 PIL of 2005 of O Fernandes (deceased) Vs Union of India; and a 2010 PIL of Shiv Sena Party Vs B G Deshmukh (deceasad).Applicants see Archaeological Society of India, scope wood serviceman of Bilagi successful Karnataka’s Bagalkot district; Bihar Police Association; Subramanian Swamy Vs Union of India; State of Madhya Pradesh Vs Medha Patkar; pharmaceutical companies, builders and hoteliers.
