CJI demand for 40k judges not data-backed: Gowda
Union Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Wednesday said that the report by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) TS Thakur on the shortage of judges in the country was not backed by any scientific research or data. Earlier, Thakur had said that the country needed at least 40,000 judges to handle the “avalanche” of litigation.