What gives withv the caseload data for India's Armed Forces Tribunal. Is the backlog the nearly 38,000 cases reported by the court or the 6904 cases reported by the government in Parliament? The Wire has the story here. Excerpt:
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative’s (CHRI) director and RTI activist Venkatesh Nayak found in responses to his queries to the AFT that if total pending cases across all benches and over two decades were added up, the number reaches 37,864. This figure is not just substantially higher than what the Union government declared but also higher than the AFT’s own declaration just a few months earlier, in another set of RTI responses to Nayak.
The mismatch between the figures of the Union government and the AFT came to light in December 2025, when the tribunal’s Central Public Information Officer, in RTI responses to Nayak, said the pendency was 27,962 cases as of September, 2025. The Wire had first reported the inconsistencies in AFT’s pendency figures, including the mismatch with the figures provided in the government’s reply in parliament. In fact, the report showed that parliament had recorded 18,826 pending cases in February 2021 and that this figure steadily rose after this date.
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