Over 23,000 rape cases pending High Courts; 309 in apex court
9 Feb 2014 4:55 AM IST
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 Friday.
As on 31 December, 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. He said, between October, 2009 and September, 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.
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