The number of criminal cases filed in the Bandra family court here since 2010 have gone down by half, an RTI query has revealed. In 2010, an average of 157 criminal cases were filed (instituted) per month. This figure came down in subsequent years and scaled down to 78/month in 2015, the reply furnished by Superintendent, Family Court, Mumbai in response to the query filed by RTI activist Vihar Durve, said.

However, fresh cases instituted in the family court in the last three years have remained, more or less the same. In 2013, 697 fresh cases were instituted per month and in the next year (2014), only 685 fresh cases were filed. Whereas in the current year (2015), 681 fresh cases were filed per month upto September 2015.