Drafting slips sending arbitration to winding, pricier detours

Piling backlog

CubicTree’s latest dataset, shared with Mint by its chief executive and founder Hitesh Jirwala, shows a significant backlog of arbitration-related cases in Indian courts. As of 2 September 2026, 289,525 cases were pending of the total 729,761 in the dataset. Of these, 440,236 cases had been disposed of, giving a disposal rate of 60.3%.