Many Chief Justices, Judges of the Supreme Court, the High Courts, the Law Ministers, the Law Commission, the media, and the great writers and thinkers have all lamented over the delay in the dispensation of justice. The inordinate delay in the provision of relief amounts to the virtual denial of any relief found in a number of cases. The litany of woes caused by delays in the administration of justice is disastrous. A layman does not want or understand that he has the right to get justice, and that too within a reasonable time. If an aggrieved person doesn’t get justice within a reasonable time, then all his suffering and hardships because of such a delay are like punishment inflicted on him for no fault of his own.

Delayed justice is the biggest cause of widespread corruption in the country. Many political leaders are enjoying the chairs of ministers while a number of cases are pending against them. Are our courts not their accomplices? It is unimaginable how much loss our nation will suffer, from an ethical and moral point of view at least, because of the delay in disposing of the cases.

An innocent person is the worst-affected unfortunate, who has to take shelter in the courts for getting justice, which he can never calculate as to when that so-called justice will finally arrive. No one can compute his worries and frustrations. Such sufferings and hardships led him to conclude that delayed justice is no justice.