The Supreme Court Thursday decided to lay down guidelines for monitoring and functioning of the 1734 fast track courts to be set up across the country under an ambitious Rs 500 crore scheme of the Central government to wipe out over two crore cases pending in lower judiciary. The guidelines are likely to be pronounced on December 6, a bench comprising Justice B N Kirpal, Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice Arijit Passayat said.

The bench had given time till that date to the counsel appearing for bar council of Andhra Pradesh and solicitor general Harish Salve to give their suggestions to the court so that an appropriate guideline could be laid down on the functioning and monitoring of the fast track courts.
The fast track courts were set up under a proposal of law minister Arun Jaitley to the finance commission to resurrect the lower judiciary groaning at present under the heavy backlog of cases. Bureau Report