How systemic issues like pendency sustain the Indian judiciary’s corruption problem https://theleaflet.in/judicial-accountability/how-systemic-issues-like-pendency-sustain-the-indian-judiciarys-corruption-problem At the heart of the matter are long standing ailments such as India’s massive case backlog of over 5 crore cases
The lack of transparency in judicial appointments, inadequate accountability mechanisms, and the judiciary’s resistance to external oversight further compound the issue. For example, the in-house mechanism for addressing judicial misconduct, overseen by the Chief Justice of India, has been criticised as opaque and ineffective, with no FIR permitted against a judge without the CJI’s approval. The courts are not too enthusiastic about providing information in RTI. ..
In Transparency International’s 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, 45 percent of surveyed households viewed the judiciary as corrupt, and when Indian respondents were asked to give a score between ‘1 to 5’ regarding how corrupt they believed the judiciary to be, Indians gave an average score of 3.3.