The Supreme Court disposed of 83,013 cases in 2014, the highest in a year since its inception, said outgoing Chief Justice of India HL Dattu on Thursday. He also urged his fellow judges to not be complacent, but the torch-bearers in a movement against pendency and delay of cases, reported PTI. “We are gauged by not what we have done but by what we have not done," he said.

Addressing a function organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association on the occasion of Law Day, Dattu said that “delay and pendency have always been the old foes of the Indian judicial system”. He added that the “long pendency of millions of cases is the single most important challenge that the Indian legal system is facing today”.

Dattu said that the loopholes of judicial delay and pendency could be plugged by adjusting, modifying and inventing new court procedures. He also said that a lasting solution to all the problems of pendency and delays was cooperation between the bar and bench and both have to work in tandem keeping the interest of litigant as of paramount importance.