A. answer the following questions in short:
1.what is the importance of courts in india?
2.in what form do the courts exist at the district level ? explain the set up.
3.what is the eligibility of a judge of the supreme court.
Answers
Answer:
1)Supreme Court at the apex of Indian Judiciary is the highest authority to uphold the constitution of India, to protect rights and liberties of citizens and to uphold the values of rule of law. Hence it is known as the guardian of our Constitution.
2)The District Courts of India are the district courts of the State governments in India for every district or for one or more districts together taking into account of the number of cases, population distribution in the district. They administer justice in India at a district level.
The highest court in each district is that of the District and Sessions Judge. This is the principal court of original civil jurisdiction besides the High Court of the State and which derives its jurisdiction in civil matters primarily from the code of civil procedure. The district court is also a court of sessions when it exercises its jurisdiction on criminal matters under the Code of Criminal procedure. The district court is presided over by a district judge appointed by the state governor with on the advice of state chief justice. In addition to the district judge there may be a number of additional district judges and assistant district judges depending on the workload. The additional district judge and the court presided have equivalent jurisdiction as the district judge and his district court.
3)a judge of one high court or more (continuously), for at least five years, an advocate there, for at least ten years, a distinguished jurist, in the opinion of the president, power conferred by clause(2) of article 124 of the Constitution of India.