Karnataka tops the list of states and Union Territories in providing access to justice and three other southern states figure among the best five, according to the India Justice Report 2022.
About India Justice Report 2022
- In 2017, the Tata Trusts brought together a group of sectoral experts — Centre for Social Justice, Common Cause, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative, DAKSH, Tata Institute of Social Sciences – Prayas and Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy — to develop this report.
- IJR ranks states and UTs on various parameters like vacancies in judiciary, budgetary allocations, infrastructure, human resources, legal aid, condition of prisons, functioning of police and state human rights com- missions.
- The IJR said except for Delhi and Chandigarh, no state or union territory (UT) spends more than one per cent of its total annual expenditure on judiciary where the vacancy of judges in high courts stands at 30 per cent.
- The IJR said as of December 2022, the country had 19 judges for every 1 million people and a backlog of 48 million cases.
- The Law Commission had suggested, as early as in 1987, that there should be 50 judges for every 1 million people in a decade’s time.
- While Karnataka topped the chart among 18 large and mid-size states having a population of over 10 million, it was followed by Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh.
