Thousands languish in the country’s jails waiting for their court hearings. But as their cases get lost in the courts’ backlog, their voices never leave the four corners of their cells.

Three years ago, Andhra Pradesh High Court’s Justice VV Rao claimed it would take 320 years to clear the backlog of cases in India. But Former Chief Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi, on analysing the data from four editions of Courtnews, from July 2011 to June 2012, has realised that Rao’s statement was an extreme hyperbole.