*✍🏻 Judiciary Data* *📍 Total Pending Cases in Supreme Court* ✅ 83,000 (34% cases less than 1 year old) *📍 Case Disposal Rate of Supreme Court* ✅ 92.6% *📍 Total Pending Cases in High Courts* ✅ ~ 60 lakh (75% cases more than 1 year old) *📍 High Courts Sanctioned Strength* ✅ 1114, current = 968, vacancies ~ 150 *📍 Total Pending Cases in District & Lower Judiciary* ✅ ~ 4.5 crore (65% cases more than 1 year old) *📍 Judges to Population Ratio in India* ✅ 21/million (120th Law Commission recommended 50/million) *📍 Vacancies in Judiciary as of November 2024* ✅ More than 5,600 vacancies (2 in SC, 364 in HCs, 5245 in lower courts) *📍 PILs Filed Before the SC* ✅ Consistently increased from 2014 (~30,000 PILs) to 2021 (~1,14,000 PILs) #gs2 #gs4 #ethics #essay #governance #mains #polity