  Indian Judiciary is suffering from burden of millions of cases that are lying
pending in its courts at all the levels. In this paper, we analyze the data
that we have collected on the pendency of 24 high courts in the Republic of
India as they were made available on High Court NJDG (HC-NJDG). We collected
data on 73 days beginning August 31, 2017 to December 26, 2018, including these
days. Thus, the data collected by us spans a period of almost sixteen months.
We have analyzed various statistics available on the NJDG portal for High
Courts, including but not limited to the number of judges in each high court,
the number of cases pending in each high court, cases that have been pending
for more than 10 years, cases filed, listed and disposed, cases filed by women
and senior citizens, etc. Our results show that: 1) statistics as important as
the number of judges in high courts have serious errors on NJDG (Fig. 1, 2, 10,
11, Table V). 2) pending cases in most of the high courts are increasing rather
than decreasing (Fig. 3, 13). 3) regular update of HC-NJDG is required for it
to be useful. Data related to some high courts is not being updated regularly
or is updated erroneously on the portal (Fig. 14). 4) there is a huge
difference in terms of average load of cases on judges of different high courts
(Fig. 6). 5) if all the high courts operate at their approved strength of
judges, then for most of the high courts pendency can be nullified within 20
years from now (Fig. 21, 22). 6) the pending cases filed by women and senior
citizens are disproportionately low, they together constitute less than 10% of
the total pending cases (Fig. 23 - 27) 7) a better scheduling process for
preparing causelists in courts can help reducing the number of pending cases in
the High Courts (Fig. 29). 8) some statistics are not well defined (Fig. 31).

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