Subordinate Courts

Question 1

What are the types of subordinate courts?

Answer 1

• district courts
• revenue courts
• nayaya panchayats
• lok adalas

Question 2

Describe district courts.

Answer 2

• court of districts (divisions of states for administrative convenience)
  HIGHEST COURTS FOR:
• Civil cases: court of the district judge
• Criminal cases: court of sessions judge
• the district judge can also act as the sessions judge
• appeals from lower courts are taken here
• appeals from here are taken to high court

Question 3

Describe revenue courts?

Answer 3

• Payment disputes
• highest revenue court in a state: Board of Revenue
  -most important revenue court in a district: the collector
• appeals from here are taken to high court

Question 4

Describe Nayaya panchayats.

Answer 4

• small law courts in rural areas
  FUNCTIONS:
• Petty civil and criminal cases
• levying small fines
• often serving 3-4 villages
• appeals from here can be taken to higher courts like district courts

Question 5

Describe Lok adalats.

Answer 5

• simplifies the lengthy and expensive legal procedures
• presided over by retired judges
  -disputing parties put up their cases which is resolved without a pleader or advocate

Question 6

Describe the first Lok adalat.

Answer 6

-held in Delhi
-1985
- 150 cases were settled in one day