Dhaka, Nov. 1 -- A decade of steady case disposal falls short of a pace warranted to deal with a logjam of cases Bangladesh's apex court faces amid a rush of litigants in courts across the country, sources say.

A predominant feature in the piling up of pending cases is numerous cases implicating several hundred accused each--some standing high-profile persons in the dock.

Between 2015 and 2024, more than 849,000 cases were filed in the High Court Division and over 95,000 in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, while the number of disposals fell short to cope with the pressure, leaving hundreds of thousands of cases pending for years.

By the end of 2023, nearly 4.3 million cases had remained pending across all courts, with the b...