SC unhappy with tardy pace of cases in trial courts

The Supreme Court today observed that subordinate courts in North India function at snails pace when it comes to cases relating to the high and mighty which never happens in South India.
"It (delay) never happens in South. It is done in two months. It happens only in North," a bench of justices M Y Eqbal and C Nagappan said.
The court's observation came in a murder case in which even charges have not been framed against the accused, including BSP MLC Suraj Bhan Karwarriya, over the last 20 years by a trial court in Uttar Pradesh.
Noting the delay of nearly two decades in the framing of charges by the trial court, one of the judge said, "last night I was surprised while going through the papers, (that) for 20 years charges have not been framed."

The bench's observation over the manner in which trial courts have been functioning in regard to cases involving VIPs came as senior counsel Sidharth Luthra, appearing for the BSP MLC Karwarriya, urged the court to grant two months interim bail to the law-maker for treatment of his ailing mother.