The Indian courts are notoriously slow .....
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... they literally took the very worst of the British Legal Systems and civil service, and added a large dose of Indian lethargy and corruption, and declared themselves satisfied in 1948.
So it must have been a great relief for one of these courts to get its oldest case dealt with. Yes after a mere 72 years, the High Court in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), has resolved the 1948 challenge to the decision to liquidate the bankrupt and debt-ridden Berkhampore Bank.
Virtually all the litigants are long dead, and so Justice Ravi Krishnan Kapur was able to confirm the original liquidation ruling and declare the case irreversibly closed ... there being no one left alive able to challenge this ruling.
Mind you, his court will have to turn their minds to the two of the five oldest outstanding Indian civil cases still in the Kolkata backlog. All started in 1952 .... another two are civil suits being heard in civil courts in West Bengal's Malda courts, and one is pending in the Madras High Court. The Malda Courts have reportedly lined up hearings in March and November this year.
Its hard to imagine handing complaints on to your sons and daughters, and they doing the same, as the case wends it slow passage through India's paralysed courts.
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