Centre has over 636,000 cases pending in courts: Union law minister tells Parl

As per the information compiled by LIMBS, the total number of cases stood at 636,605. Of this, the finance ministry is alone involved in 179,464 litigations; the defence ministry is involved in 87,543 cases; the labour and employment ministry has 80,117 cases; the ministry of home affairs accounts for 23,012 cases and the education ministry is a party in over 17,000 cases, which are pending