Pending cases per working judge, March 2026
A working judicial officer in Uttar Pradesh faces 4,563 pending cases, against 99 in Sikkim. The India figure is 2,359.
Policy implication
The cases and the judges come from different sources and the judges table carries no date, so this is a rough guide. West Bengal and Andaman and Nicobar share one figure because the source merges their judges. Meghalaya is grey because its pendency row contradicts itself in the source. Pending cases mix old and new filings of every kind, so the ratio does not measure how fast a judge works.
The cases and the judges come from different sources and the judges table carries no date, so this is a rough guide. West Bengal and Andaman and Nicobar share one figure because the source merges their judges. Meghalaya is grey because its pendency row contradicts itself in the source. Pending cases mix old and new filings of every kind, so the ratio does not measure how fast a judge works.
Data vintage. The figures are for 2026 and have not been refreshed since this map was made.
Source: NJDG and Nyaya Vikas (Lok Sabha, March 2026) (2026). See the methodology for notes and limitations.
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