Voluminous charge sheets

This refers to the report " NIA files charge sheet in Pulwama attack case" 

The report says the charge sheet comprising more than 13000 pages has been filed in a court by the investigating agency. I wonder why such a voluminous charge sheet had been prepared, which may unnecessarily delay the proceedings. The preparation of so many pages of charge sheet itself has already taken more than a year for the agency. Now the accused have to reply to the charges before the court decides about the further proceedings. The accused can take a stand that they have to go through the entire charge sheet before submitting their responses and this itself may take months together, i am afraid. I feel the judicial process should be revisited to ensure that the charge sheet filed in the court is crisp and to the point. Any supporting points, records etc.can be produced or submitted at the time of detailed hearing of the case. For that matter, i presume that majority of the charge sheet may be in the form of annexures , being the documents supporting each charge. If that be the case, the body of the charge sheet can be 10 or 15 pages only and while reporting the reporters should mention that fact only instead of mentioning the total number of pages in the document.

Similar is the case observed in pronouncements of judgements in various cases. The learned judges do make references to many previous cases of similar nature and quote from these judgements which had influenced them in reaching a final decision. I feel all such judgements can be made part of the judgement as annexure and only a preference be made to them in the body of the judgement so that an ordinary person can peruse the bare fact of the judgement and of anybody was interested in any casw under reference could perude the annexure too. In the present scenario , reading a judgement becomes a very boring experience for an ordinary mortal. I hope the judiciary will consider both the above aspects and initiate suitable steps to make the entire process simple and 'light