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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Subject – Civics
Chapter – 5: Judiciary
Class – VIII
Sub topic 2: What is the structure of courts in India?

Lesson Notes

NOTES

Pages: 57, 58, 59

What is the structure of courts in India?

• There are three different levels of courts in our country.

• Subordinate courts or district courts are at the district level or Tehsil

level. These are provided over by the district judge.

• Each state has a High Court which is the highest court of that state.

• At the top is the Supreme Court that is located in New Delhi and

presided over by the Chief Justice of India.

• The decisions made by the Supreme Court in binding on all other courts

in India.

• In India we have an integrated judicial system meaning that the

decisions made by the higher courts are binding on the lower courts.

• The Appellate system exists in India. This means that a person can

appeal to a higher court if he believes that the judgement passed in the

lower court is not just.

• Example of Appellate system.

Case - Delhi Administration versus Laxman Kumar and others.From the

lower court to Supreme Court.