The court was hearing a petition filed by advocate Ashwini Upadhyay in 2016, seeking suitable directives for fast-tracking criminal trials against sitting and former MPs and MLAs | Latest News India
The bench said that multiple local factors made it difficult for the top court to frame uniform or standard guideline for trial courts across the length and breadth of this country and it left the issue of ensuring speedy trial to the high courts as they have the power of superintendence over the trial courts.
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The ruling also asked the high courts to create “an independent tab on their website providing district wise information of the details of the year of the filing, the number of subject cases pending and stage of proceedings”.
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