A total of 3,684,728 cases are pending at different courts across the country.
Saifur Rahman, a special officer of the Bangladesh Supreme Court confirmed the matter to the Business Post on Thursday.
The regular activities of courts across the country, including Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court, remained suspended since March 26 due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Court practitioners suggest that the government should increase the number of judges and officials for courts across the country, otherwise the number of pending cases will keep rising.
Till December 31, 2017, the number of cases pending in the country was 33,09,789.
According to the statistics sent by the Supreme Court, as of December 31, 2019, there are 23,617 cases pending in the Appellate Division and 4, 89,068 in the High Court division.
The number of cases pending in the subordinate courts is 31,72,043.
Meanwhile, between January and December last year, 9,478 cases have been filed with the Appellate Division and 6,303 have been disposed of.
Besides, In the High Court Division, 1,07, 568 cases have been filed. Among them, 1,35,275 cases have been settled during this period.
At that time 14, 28,724 cases have been filed with the subordinate courts and 10,24,357 cases have been disposed of.
Statistics also showed that the number of settled cases is higher than the number of those filed in the High Court alone.
In addition, the number of cases is increasing as the number of cases disposed of is less than the number of filed cases in the subordinate courts.
