The analysis of almost 60 years of cases pending in the Supreme Court also revealed a host of other trends, including that company, tax, mining and public interest cases suffer the longest wait times.
The report – ‘The Indian Supreme Court by the Numbers’ -- was published last week by Nick Robinson, a visiting fellow at the Centre for Policy Research at Azim Premji University Bangalore. According to the research – reported by Legally India – A Delhi high court case is three times more likely than a Bombay high court case to end up in the Supreme Court.