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Fix the Decree, Not Just the Bench: Why Civil Procedure Reform Must End Police-Run Debt Recovery

The Bombay High Court's 1947 suit, settled after 79 years, has prompted a debate on how judicial delay pushes creditors to use police coercion through preliminary inquiries, now codified in Section 173(3) of the BNSS, in place of civil adjudication. An opinion piece highlighted how extreme delays in civil courts drive well-connected litigants to weaponize police preliminary inquiries, criminalising civil disputes for rapid…