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Litigation Landscape of Bengaluru – Bengaluru Rural Courts
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Vidhi and DAKSH have collaborated in producing this Report, a first in a series aimed at better understanding the litigation landscape of Bengaluru. In this report, the focus is on Bengaluru Rural District Courts (Rural Court), functioning out of six court complexes in and around the city. The objectives of the Report are to one, understand the structure and functioning of the subordinate judiciary, specifically Rural Courts and two, propose measures to improve the status quo. Apart from an in-depth case-data analysis, in a first of its kind exercise, the researchers have conducted extensive interviews with the judicial administrative staff and judges to hear first hand accounts of the issues that hampers the courts’ functioning. The Report ends with a list of recommendations along with the in-charge authorities to improve the court management systems in Bengaluru Rural Courts.
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Akhileshwari Reddy
Senior Resident Fellow
Akhileshwari Reddy was a Senior Resident Fellow at Vidhi, Karnataka. At Vidhi, her work focused on the protection of human rights and environment. She worked on various projects including those on solid waste management, waste picker welfare, urban ground water management and human-wildlife conflict in India. She graduated with a B.A., L.LB (Hons.) degree from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS, Kolkata) in 2016. In 2017, she completed her Masters in Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) on the Marchant Foundation Scholarship and the LSE Master’s Award. Her articles on human rights issues in India have been published by various Journals. She also regularly contributes to the Deccan Herald, The Wire and Down to Earth. She is an avid reader and especially enjoys reading fantasy fiction.
Deepika Kinhal
Former Team Lead, JALDI
Deepika Kinhal was the Team Lead of JALDI. Since 2017, she authored several data-driven research reports seeking to understand the systemic issues that plague India’s justice delivery systems. She has been a part of expert committees constituted by the eCommittee of the Supreme Court of India and NITI Aayog to improve justice delivery through technology, and has led engagements with multiple High Courts to study and improve their case and court management systems. She also appeared before the Parliamentary Standing Committees on Mediation Bill and Judicial Impact Assessment. At JALDI, she was focused on translating our research findings into tangible solutions and enabling evidence-based reforms in the judiciary. In this, she collaborated with experts from various domains and worked with similar minded organizations across the board. Her dream as an Indian citizen and a judicial reforms enthusiast is to have a modern, responsive judiciary that delivers quality, effective justice in a manner that befits the aspirational 21st century Indian. She graduated from NLSIU, Bengaluru in 2012. Before joining Vidhi, she practiced as a civil-commercial lawyer in Karnataka with Dua Associates, and as a real-estate and capital markets lawyer at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas.
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