India Justice Report 2025: Charts on Policing and Judiciary- II
Charts from administrative data on policing and judiciary
The India Justice Report - 2025 was released. The Report uses administrative data only. Some data from the Report. Also see earlier post here.
Jails Overcrowded — Prison Statistics have not been published since 2022.
77% of prisoners are undertrial and the numbers are highest since 2010.
Five-year case pendency as of January 2023, immediately after COVID
4. Five-year case pendency as of January 2025
5. Increase in trial court cases pending for over three years in January 2025
High Court Pendency
7. Judicial and Police Vacancy
Vacancy in forensics
Bail Rejection Statistics
Source: Supreme Court’s useful report on Prison Reforms, Undertrials and Prison Manuals
Progress over the last ten years. The spending is in Nominal Rupees and must be understood accordingly to have stagnated.
Legal Aid
8. Most states have abysmally low training budgets
9. Good news: Share of Women in Lower Judiciary is increasing.
Some links
Research on Judicial Reforms in India by Daksh Legal.
JALDI— by Vidhi Legal