So far, 1275 Fast Track Courts have been notified
out of a total of 1734 such courts earmarked for the entire
country. Of these, 980 Fast Track Courts have become functional.
These courts have disposed of more than 77,000
criminal cases at sessions court level out of 1,82,271 criminal
cases transferred to these Fast Track Courts. When all the Fast
Track Courts are made functional, the disposal of cases will
increase.
The Centre has, so far, released a sum of Rs.
318.57 crores to the States out of a total sum of Rs. 502.90
crores earmarked for setting up of all the 1734 Fast Track Courts
over a period of five years under the award of the Tenth Finance
Commission. The Fast Track Courts are cent per cent Centrally
funded scheme.
The remaining Fast Track Courts are proposed
to be notified and made functional within the next two months
and before the end of the current financial year 2002-2003.
At present, more than two lakh cases of under
trials are pending before sessions courts all over the country.
These cases are to be disposed of expeditiously by the Fast
Track Courts.
