Supreme Court has 60,938 pending cases
The Supreme Court, which is eight judges short of the sanctioned strength of 31, has a total of 60,938 pending cases as on September 30, 2016. As per the 'Indian Judiciary Annual Report 2015-2016' issued by the Supreme Court, of these 60,938 cases, 50,205 are civil cases and 10,733 are criminal cases. 