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Data Analysis:

The collected data from the respondents were subjected to editing and a coding plan was carried out to
facilitate electronic data processing. The data was processed through Statistical Package for Social Sciences
(IBM SPSS Statistics 21). A tabulation plan suiting to the scheme of this study was worked out.

Findings & Observations

The key conclusions of this study are presented below:
1 Majority of the respondents in this study (61.7 percent) found the adjournments to be quite frequent.
This

perception was largely shared by respondents in Rajasthan (19.3 percent) followed by Karnataka (16.7
percent). The highest number of respondents not subscribing to this view came from Maharashtra (12.7

percent) whereas the lowest number in this category came from Rajasthan (0.9 percent).

2. The data reveal that almost 65 percent witness had to appear more than once before the court for
testimony while 35.2 percent could do so in the first hearing only.

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