Bangladesh judiciary plans evening courts to clear huge case backlog in districts

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha says initiatives will be taken to introduce evening courts to deal with the escalating case backlog in the districts.

Speaking at a workshop organised by the Supreme Court at Savar on Friday, he said ‘only 1,600 judges’ in a country of 16 million people were ‘very inadequate’.

The top judge said around three million cases are pending with courts.

“Evening courts will be launched if (positive) responses come from lawyers and the government,” he said.

Justice Sinha was speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the two-day workshop as the chief guest.

At least 40 judiciary officials took part in the first day. Forty others are supposed to attend the workshop on the second day.