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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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Fast-track courts dispose more cases, so why do delays persist?

PM Modi's recent announcement of fast-track courts for question paper leak cases has revived a familiar policy response. Whenever a crime or institutional failure sparks public outrage, the promise of speedier justice tends to follow, according to Chethan Kumar’s Times of India report.

This pattern has recurred at several points over the past two and a half decades, when court backlogs mounted around the turn of the century, after the December 2012 Delhi gang rape case, and as cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act accumulated. It is now being extended to exam fraud cases.

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