NEW DELHI: President Draupadi Murmu on Sunday inaugurated the Supreme Courts eSCR website that contained Hindi translations of 21,388 judgments of a total 36,068 judgments delivered so far by the Supreme Court since January 26, 1950.Chief Justice D Y Chandrachudsaid the rest of the judgments are in the process of being translated into Hindi and would be uploaded after vetting.All the judgments in English are already available free of cost to judges, lawyers, litigants and the general public on eSCR portal, he said.However, the e-portal demonstrated on screen at the Constitution Day function after its inauguration showed a dip in the rate of case disposal by the SC this year compared to the previous year.
It showed that as against 42,744 cases last year, the court had disposed of 54,568 cases, achieving a disposal rate of 127%.Last year, SC saw three CJIs Justices N V Ramana, U U Lalit and D Y Chandrachud.
This year, the filing of cases increased to 48,255, of which 47,446 have been disposed, representing disposal rate of 98%.