NEW DELHI - Nearly 24,000 rape cases are pending in various high courts of the country while more than 8000 of them have been disposed of in the last three years, government said on Feb. 7. As of Dec. 31, 2013, 309 cases related to sexual harassment, kidnapping abduction were pending in the Supreme Court, while 687 similar cases were disposed of between 2011-13 by the apex court. Law Minister Kapil Sibal informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that 23,792 cases related to rape...
were pending in 21 high courts as of Sept. 30, 2012. He said, between Oct., 2009 and Sept., 2012, 8,772 cases were disposed of by the high courts. A maximum of 8,215 cases are pending in the Allahabad High Court which disposed of 39 cases in three years between 2009 and 2012. In the Delhi High Court, where 924 cases related to rape were pending till the end of September, 2012, disposed of 1135 cases. The Karnataka High Court, where 243 cases are pending, disposed of 4,522 cases in three years. The Sikkim High Court has no rape case pending as it disposed of two cases in three years. (PTI)
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