Staff Reporter
Guwahati: The principal seat of the Gauhati High Court in Guwahati had a total of 49,486 pending civil and criminal cases at the end of February 2025. At the start of the month, the figure stood at 49,243 cases.
During the month of February 2025, the HC’s principal seat registered 1,211 cases, including 964 civil cases and 247 criminal cases. As for the disposal of cases from February 1 to 28, the HC disposed of a total of 968 cases, of which 826 were civil cases and 142 were criminal cases.
Regarding the pending cases as of February 28, 2025, HC data revealed that out of the total of 49,486 cases, 37,997 were civil and 11,489 were criminal cases.
As for cases which are pending for more than 5 years, the data revealed that a total of 18,363 such cases were pending at the end of the month. Of this total number of pending cases of above 5 years, 13,543 were civil cases and 4,820 were criminal ones.
The data also shows that, for cases which are pending for more than 5 years, the HC’s principal seat disposed of 179 such cases during the month of February, including 163 civil cases and 16 criminal cases.
The Gauhati High Court comprises the high courts of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. The HC’s principal seat at Guwahati has 3 outlying benches: the Kohima bench for Nagaland state, the Aizawl bench for Mizoram state and the Itanagar bench for Arunachal Pradesh state.
Regarding the pending cases in the outlying benches at the end of February, it is stated that the Kohima bench has 761 cases, the Aizawl bench has 569, and the Itanagar bench has 1629 pending cases.
The principal seat of the HC and the outlying benches have a total of 52,445 pending cases as of February 28, 2025.
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