Dataset Overview

The dataset provides the number of cases pending in the Supreme Court as of the specified date, categorized by the procedural stage such as Admission Complete, Regular Ready, Admission In-complete, and Regular Not Ready. It includes data on both registered and unregistered cases, across civil and criminal case types.

HFI

Organisation

Ministry of Law and Justice

Sectors

Law and Justice

Update Frequency

As and When

Granularity

Year, Case type

Time Saved

6 hours

Number of Rows

Number of Columns

Sources

National Judicial Data Grid- Supreme Court of India

Time Period

2025 to 2026

Units

pending_cases in absolute number

Last Updated

April, 2026

Data Preview

data_as_of	category	case_category	stage_category	pending_cases	unit
08-04-2026	Registered	Criminal and Civil	Admission Complete	46950	pending_cases in absolute number
08-04-2026	Unregistered	Criminal and Civil	Regular Ready	447	pending_cases in absolute number
08-04-2026	Registered	Criminal and Civil	Regular Ready	23146	pending_cases in absolute number
08-04-2026	Unregistered	Civil	Regular Not Ready	10	pending_cases in absolute number
08-04-2026	Unregistered	Civil	Admission In-complete	176	pending_cases in absolute number

Metadata

Name	Number of Distinct Values	Number of Unique Values	Type	Count
data_as_of	4	4	Date	94
category	2	2	String	94
case_category	3	3	String	94
stage_category	4	4	String	94
pending_cases	78	78	Int64	94
unit	1	1	String	94
note	1	1	String	0

Citation

Ministry of Law and Justice. Registration Status, Case Category, and Procedural Stage wise Pending Cases in Supreme Court [Data set]. Dataful. https://dataful.in/datasets/21375

Registration Status, Case Category, and Procedural Stage wise Pending Cases in Supreme Court