By Admin 
How many Judges in India: There are only 15 judges on a population of 10 lakh in the country, which are much less than the recommendation of the Law Commission. According to the commission, there should be 50 judges on a population of 10 lakhs. This information has been revealed in the ‘India Justice System Report’ 2025 released on Tuesday (April 15).
According to this report, ‘India has 21 thousand 285 judges for 140 crore people or about 15 judges per population of one million. This is much lower than the recommendation of 50 judges on a population of one million per million of the Law Commission of 1987. According to this, vacancies in different High Courts were 33 percent of the total sanctioned posts. The report claimed 21 percent vacancies in 2025, which shows more charge for existing judges.
It has also revealed that there are 2,200 cases per judge per judge in district courts at the national level. The burden of per judge cases in Allahabad and Madhya Pradesh High Courts is 15,000. The total stake of women judges in the district judiciary has increased from 30 percent to 38.3 percent in 2017 and in 2025 it has increased from 11.4 percent to 14 percent in the High Courts.
How much is the number of women judges in the courts?
It has also been learned that women judges have more stake in district courts than the High Court and Supreme Court (six percent). Currently, 25 High Court has only one female Chief Justice. The district courts of Delhi are among the lowest vacancies in the country, where 11 percent vacancies and 45 percent of women are judges.
How many SC/ST judges in the country?
Along with this, only five percent of the judges in the district judiciary are from Scheduled Tribes (ST) and 14 percent from Scheduled Castes (SC). Out of 698 judges of the High Court appointed from the year 2018, only 37 judges are from SC and ST categories. According to the report, the total representation of OBC in the judiciary is 25.6 percent.
How much do the state spend on the judiciary?
The report said that the national per capita expenditure on legal aid is Rs 6.46 per year, while the national per capita expenditure on the judiciary is Rs 182. It claimed that no state spends more than one percent of its total annual expenditure on the judiciary.