Kashipur A total of 3 lakh 84 thousand 234 cases were pending in the courts of Uttarakhand in the year 2025, 3 lakh 16 thousand 369 criminals and 67876 civil cases were pending. In the last two years, the pending cases in Uttarakhand have increased by only 9 percent, while the cases pending in various districts have decreased by up to 50 percent.
The Right to Information Executive Nadeem Uddin, a resident of Kashipur, had sought information from the Public Information Officer of the Uttarakhand High Court about the details of the pending cases in the courts of Uttarakhand. In response to this, the Public Information Officer/Joint Registrar of Uttarakhand High Court HS Gina has provided the true photo copies of the related details with his letter 1266.
According to the details available to Nadeem, a total of 44512 cases were pending in the Uttarakhand High Court in early 2023, including 25635 civil and 18877 criminal cases. The total number of cases pending in the end of the year 2024 and early 2025 increased to 55323, which includes 30301 civil and 25022 criminal cases.
A total of 3 lakh 8 thousand 694 cases were pending in the year 2023 in the subordinate courts of Uttarakhand, including 37872 civil and 2,70,822 criminal cases. The total number of these cases increased by 7 percent to 3,28,911 in the end of the year 2024 and in 2025, including 37564 civil and 291347 criminal cases.
In the districts of Uttarakhand, only 4 districts have increased the total pending cases in two years, while the pending cases in 9 districts have decreased.
A total of 108760 cases were pending in Dehradun in Dehradun in the districts with increased cases pending in Uttarakhand, which increased by 5 percent to 1,14,155 at the end of 2024. Haridwar had 80623 cases pending in early 2024, which increased by 21 percent to 97299 at the end of 2024. 25802 cases were pending in Nainital district, which increased by 2 percent to 26398. 7071 cases were pending in Pauri, with 52 percent increase to 10777. There were 3170 cases pending in Tehri district, which increased by 9 percent to 3467.
Udhamsingh Nagar district is also included in the districts decreasing in pending cases, including a total of 68785 cases pending in early 2023, with 3 percent decrease and 66577 cases were pending at the end of 2024.
The highest reduction in pending cases has occurred in Uttarkashi district. In this, only 1364 cases remained pending due to a 50 percent decrease in 2711 cases. Apart from this, there was a 12 percent reduction in 2100 cases in Almora, 1846 cases, 44 percent reduction in 812 cases in Bageshwar district, 453 cases in Chamoli, 32 percent reduction in 1521 cases, 1027 cases in Champawat, 3115 cases in Champawat, 14 percent decrease in 3115 cases, 2689 cases in Pithoragarh, 32 percent decrease in 3579 cases in Pithoragarh, 2425 cases and 2425 cases in Pithoragarh, 2425 cases in Rudraprayag in the beginning of the year 2023 A 33 percent decrease in cases, 434 cases have been pending in the end of 2024 and early 2025.