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During the year of 2005, the government withdrew 0.0 cases from the court in the case of murder, 0.1% of the cases were compounded or withdrawn, 5.4% were convicted, 10.1% acquitted or discharged and 84.4% were pending trial.

In the case of molestation 4.1% of the  cases were found compounded or withdrawn, 4.2% were convicted, 9.7% acquitted or discharged  while 82% were still pending trial.

The crime with highest percentage of compounded or  withdrawn cases in the abstracted table below was the case of hurt (4.8%), the crime with the  highest percentage of conviction rate was  sexual harassment with 13.6% of its cases convicted.  The crime with highest percentage of acquitted or discharged cases was the crime of rape  (14.6%) and the crime with the highest  percentage of its cases pending trials was importation of  girls with 88.3%.

In a ten year period from 1961, the percentage of completed trials has decreased with almost 50% from 30.3% to merely 14.5% in 2005. The reason for this has not been stated in the original source but can be due to huge increase in fresh cases as well as backlog of cases and that trials are postponed due to that any of the parties do not show up in court.