Judiciary of India - Wikipedia Judiciary of India This article is part of a series on Judiciary of India Law of India Administration Ministry of Justice Department of Legal Affairs Legislative Department Department of Justice Law Commission of India Civil courts Supreme Court of India Chief Justice of India Judges of the Supreme Court High Courts of India Chief justices of High Courts of India Judges of High Courts District Courts / Additional district judge 's courts Civil Judge ( Sr. Division ) 's Courts Civil Judge ( Jr. Division ) 's Courts Criminal courts Supreme Court of India Chief Justice of India Judges of the Supreme Court High Courts of India Chief Justices of High Courts of India Judges of High Courts Courts of Session / Courts of Additional Sessions Judge Courts of Assistant Sessions Judge Chief Judicial Magistrate Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Judicial Magistrate of First Class / Metropolitan Magistrate Special Judicial Magistrate Judicial Magistrate of Second Class Executive Court Divisional commissioner District magistrate / additional district magistrate Sub-divisional magistrate Assistant magistrate Special executive magistrate Legal profession Bar Council Chairman ( BCI ) - Manan Kumar Mishra Attorney General of India Solicitor General of India Additional Solicitor General of India Advocates in India All India Bar Examination Legal education Legal education in India Autonomous law schools in India List of law schools in India The Indian Judiciary administers a common law system of legal jurisdiction, in which customs, precedents and legislation, all codify the law of the land. It has in fact, inherited the legacy of the legal system established by the then colonial powers and the princely states since the mid-19th century, and has partly retained characteristics of practices from the ancient and medieval times. There are various levels of judiciary in India -- different types of courts, each with varying powers depending on the tier and jurisdiction bestowed upon them. They form a strict hierarchy of importance, in line with the order of the courts in which they sit, with the Supreme Court of India at the top, followed by High Courts of respective states with district judges sitting in District Courts and Magistrates of Second Class and Civil Judge ( Junior Division ) at the bottom. Class Rank Chief Justice Of High Court First Additional Justice / Registrar General Second Subordinate Justice Third District Judge Fourth Additional District Judge Fifth Special Judge Sixth Session / Criminal Judge Seventh Sub - Divisional Magistrate Eighth Chief Judicial Magistrate Ninth Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Tenth Civil Judge ( Senior Division ) Eleventh Secretary Magistrate Twelfth Judicial Magistrate Thirteenth Judge ( Junior Division ) Fourteenth Contents 1 The Constitution and the Judiciary 1.1 Appointment 2 Courts 2.1 Supreme Court of India 2.2 High courts 2.3 District courts 2.4 Subordinate courts 3 Issues 3.1 Pendency of cases 3.2 Judicial corruption 4 Reform 4.1 E-Courts Mission Mode Project 4.1. 1 Judicial Service Centre 5 History 5.1 Jury trial 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading The Constitution and the judiciary The JUDICIARY interprets the Constitution as its final arbiter. It is its duty as mandated by the Constitution, to be its watchdog, by calling for scrutiny any act of the legislature or the executive, who otherwise, are free to enact or implement these, from overstepping bounds set for them by the Constitution. It acts like a guardian in protecting the fundamental rights of the people, as enshrined in the Constitution, from infringement by any organ of the state. It also balances the conflicting exercise of power between the centre and a state or among states, as assigned to them by the Constitution. While pronouncing decisions under its constitutional mandate, it is expected to remain unaffected by pulls and pressures exerted by other branches of the state, citizens or interest groups. And crucially, independence of the judiciary has been held to be a basic feature of the Constitution, and which being inalienable, has come to mean -- that which can not be taken away from it by any act or amendment by the legislature or the executive. This independence shows up in the following manner : No minister, or even the executive collectively, can suggest any names for appointment as judges, to the President, who ultimately decides on appointing them from a list of names recommended only by the collegium of the judiciary. Nor can judges of the Supreme Court or a High Court be removed from office once appointed, unless an overwhelming two - thirds of members of any of the Houses of the Parliament back the move, and only on grounds of proven misconduct or incapacity. A person who has been a judge of a court is debarred from practicing in the jurisdiction of that court. The constitution and hence judiciary need continued review to ensure they do n't lose relevance, with the present and are kept in synch with the changing times. The judiciary, in India ( and the world over ) is making efforts to computerize and hence e-courts and e-judiciary but this will require a rethink and re-packaging of judiciary for maximum benefits from available judicial resources, i.e. judges, jury... E-courts In India Appointment As per the govt, as held by the court in the Three Judges ' Cases -- ( 1982, 1993, 1998 ), a judge is appointed to the Supreme Court and the High Courts by the President of India from a list of names recommended by the collegium -- a closed group of the Chief Justice of India and the senior-most judges of the Supreme Court, for appointments to the Supreme Court, and they, together with the Chief Justice of a High Court and its senior-most judges, for appointments to that court. This has resulted in a Memorandum of Procedure being followed, for the appointments. Judges used to be appointed by the President on the recommendation of the Union Cabinet. After 1993, as held in the Second Judges ' Case, the executive was given the power to reject a name recommended by the judiciary. However, according to some, the executive has not been diligent in using this power to reject the names of bad candidates recommended. The collegium system has come under a fair amount of criticism. Presently, by a recent order in the Fourth Judges ' Case, the court has invited everyone, including the public, to suggest by mid-November 2015, how to improve it, broadly along the lines of -- setting up an eligibility criteria for appointments, a permanent secretariat to help the collegium sift through material on potential candidates, infusing more transparency into the selection process, grievance redressal and any other suggestion not in these four categories, like transfer of judges. Earlier, one recommendation by a collegium came to be challenged in court. The court held that who could become a judge was a matter of fact, and any person had a right to question it. But who should become a judge was a matter of opinion and could not be questioned. As long as an effective consultation took place within a collegium in arriving at that opinion, the content or material placed before it to form the opinion could not be called for scrutiny in a court. Courts Supreme Court of India Main article : Supreme Court of India The Supreme Court is the highest court of the country or nation, which is established by the Constitution. According to it, the Supreme Court is a federal court, guardian of the Constitution and the highest court of appeal. Articles 124 to 147 of the Constitution lay down the composition and jurisdiction of the Court. Primarily, it is an appellate court which takes up appeals against judgments of the High Courts of the states and territories. However, it also takes writ petitions in cases of serious human rights violations or any petition filed under Article 32 which is the right to constitutional remedies or if a case involves a serious issue that needs immediate resolution. It had its inaugural sitting on 26 January 1950, the day India 's constitution came into force, and since then has delivered more than 24,000 reported judgements. The Supreme Court comprises the Chief Justice and 30 other Judges. The proceedings of the Supreme Court are conducted in English only. Supreme Court Rules, 1966 are framed under Article 145 of the Constitution to regulate the practice and procedure of the Supreme Court. The same is amended and presently governed by the Supreme Court Rules, 2013. ( http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/Supreme%20Court%20Rules,%202013.pdf ) High courts Main article : List of High Courts of India There are 24 High Courts at the State level. Article 141 of the Constitution of India mandates that they are bound by the judgements and orders of the Supreme Court of India by precedence. These courts have jurisdiction over a state, a union territory or a group of states and union territories. Below the High Courts are a hierarchy of subordinate courts such as the civil courts, family courts, criminal courts and various other district courts. High courts are instituted as constitutional courts under Part VI, Chapter V, Article 214 of the Indian Constitution. The High Courts are the principal civil courts of original jurisdiction in the state along with District Courts which are subordinate to the High courts. However, High courts exercise their original civil and criminal jurisdiction only if the courts subordinate to the high court in the state are not competent ( not authorised by law ) to try such matters for lack of pecuniary, territorial jurisdiction. High courts may also enjoy original jurisdiction in certain matters if so designated specifically in a state or Federal law. e.g. : Company law cases are instituted only in a high court. However, primarily the work of most High Courts consists of Appeals from lower courts and writ petitions in terms of Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Writ Jurisdiction is also original jurisdiction of High Court. The precise territorial jurisdiction of each High Court varies Judges in a high court are appointed by the President after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, Chief Justice of High Court and the governor of the state. The number of judges in a court is decided by dividing the average institution of main cases during the last five years by the national average, or the average rate of disposal of main cases per judge per year in that High Court, whichever is higher. The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in the country, established on 2 July 1862, whereas the Allahabad High Court is the largest, having a sanctioned strength of judges at 160. High courts which handle a large number of cases of a particular region, have permanent benches ( or a branch of the court ) established there. For litigants of remote regions, ' circuit benches ' are set up, which work for those days in a month when judges visit. District courts Main article : District Courts of India The District Courts of India are established by the State governments of India for every district or for one or more districts together taking into account the number of cases, population distribution in the district. They administer justice in India at a district level. These courts are under administrative control of the High Court of the State to which the district concerned belongs. The decisions of District court are subject to the appellate jurisdiction of the concerned High court. The district court is presided over by one District Judge appointed by the state Government. In addition to the district judge there may be 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. The district judge is also called `` Metropolitan session judge '' when he is presiding over a district court in a city which is designated `` Metropolitan area '' by the state Government. The district court has appellate jurisdiction over all subordinate courts situated in the district on both civil and criminal matters. Subordinate courts, on the civil side ( in ascending order ) are, Junior Civil Judge Court, Principal Junior Civil Judge Court, Senior Civil Judge Court ( also called sub-court ). Subordinate courts, on the criminal side ( in ascending order ) are, Second Class Judicial Magistrate Court, First Class Judicial Magistrate Court, Chief Judicial Magistrate Court.In addition ' Family Courts '' are established to deal with matrimonial disputes alone. The Principal judge of family court is equivalent to District Judge. Subordinate courts Subordinate courts are also known as village courts, Lok Adalat ( people 's court ) or Nyaya panchayat ( justice of the villages ), compose a system of alternative dispute resolution. They were recognized through the 1888 Madras Village Court Act, then developed ( after 1935 ) in various provinces and ( after 1947 ) Indian states. The model from the Gujarat State ( with a judge and two assessors ) was used from the 1970s onwards. In 1984 the Law Commission recommended to create Nyaya Panchayats in rural areas with laymen ( `` having educational attainments '' ). The 2008 Gram Nyayalayas Act had foreseen 5,000 mobile courts in the country for judging petty civil ( property cases ) and criminal ( up to 2 years of prison ) cases. However, the Act has not been enforced properly, with only 151 functional Gram Nyayalayas in the country ( as of May 2012 ) against a target of 5000 such courts. The major reasons behind the non-enforcement includes financial constraints, reluctance of lawyers, police and other government officials. Issues This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. ( June 2012 ) According to the World Bank, `` although India 's courts are notoriously inefficient, they at least comprise a functioning independent judiciary '' A functioning judiciary is the guarantor of fairness and a powerful weapon against corruption. But people 's experiences fall far short of this ideal. Corruption in the judiciary goes beyond the bribing of judges. Court personnel are paid off to slow down or speed up a trial, or to make a complainant go away. Citizens are often unaware of their rights, or resigned, after so many negative experiences, to their fate before an inefficient court. Court efficiency is also crucial, as a serious backlog of cases creates opportunities for demanding unscheduled payments to fast - track a case. Indian Judiciary Issues have been depicted in several films, one of them being a 2015, Marathi film, Court. I think the biggest challenge is exploiting the available resources in judiciary to be most effective -- i.e. the high complexity cases getting the maximum and best judicial treatment and low priority matters the least judicial service, and since there is a drift towards e-judiciary, E-courts In India exploiting the power of computers and associated computing tools -- logic, algorithm, trend analysis -- to service these matters -- in which patterns and repetition can be identified and hence can be solved by generically Pendency of cases Indian courts have millions of pending cases. On an average about 20 % of the sanctioned positions for judges are vacant, whereas the annual increase in pendency is less than 2 %. If the vacancies were filled, pendencies would go down and make the justice system deliver efficiently. Traffic challans, police challans and cheque bounce cases make up nearly half of all pending cases. In 2015, it was reported that there were close to 400 vacancies for judge 's post in country 's 24 high courts. Arrears in the Supreme Court have mounted to around 65,000. There are some 30 million cases in various courts. Budget allocation for judiciary is a miserly 0.2 per cent of the gross domestic product. The judge - population ratio is 10.5 to one million, which should be 50 to one million. The government has been the largest, single party litigating before the courts, and has kept adding cases to the over-burdened courts despite losing most, and then on losing, has relentlessly taken them to the next court, much of this being avoidable, according to the Law Commission The vast number of cases pending in the Supreme Court as well as the other lower courts has defeated the very purpose of the judicial system. For justice delayed, is in effect justice denied. Judiciary is no longer attracting the best legal talent because of disparity in the income of bright young lawyers and the emoluments of judicial officers. In order to attract persons of the right caliber to the judicial cadre, System must improve their service conditions, particularly of the trial court judges. In recent years scandals about lack of integrity have besmirched the reputation of the judiciary. The sub-ordinate judiciary works in appalling conditions. Any reform undertaken must be in its totality rather than in isolation. On 12 January 2012, a Supreme Court bench said that people 's faith in judiciary was decreasing at an alarming rate, posing a grave threat to constitutional and democratic governance of the country. It acknowledged some of the serious problems of a large number of vacancies in trial courts, unwillingness of lawyers to become judges, and the failure of the apex judiciary in filling vacant HC judges posts. It wanted to seek answers from the government on amicus curiae 's suggestion that access to justice must be made a constitutional right and consequently the executive must provide necessary infrastructure for ensuring every citizen enjoyed this right. It also wanted the Government of India to detail the work being done by the National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms. Undertrials outnumber convicts in the prison population of Indian jails. There have been cases where ordinary citizens have been charged for espionage while overstaying their visa or straying across the international land or maritime boundary and languishing in prison for years due to the slow redressal process. To reduce pendency, ' Fast - track courts ', ' Evening courts / Morning courts ' were set up and have met with mixed success so far. ' Mobile courts ' are being set up to bring ' justice at the doorsteps ' of litigants of far - flung remote and backward rural areas. However, Lok Adalats an informal, alternative mechanism has been a phenomenal success in tackling pendency, especially in pre-litigation matters, settling fresh cases before they become full - blown disputes and enter the courts. According to a report released by Centre for Public Policy Research and British Deputy High Commission `` here are a total of 16,884 commercial disputes pending in High Courts with original jurisdiction. Of these Madras High court tops with 5,865. With the number of commercial disputes growing rapidly, facilitating a seamless dispute resolution system through alternate means has become crucial. '' Judicial corruption Corruption is rampant in India 's court. According to Transparency International, judicial corruption in India is attributable to factors such as `` delays in the disposal of cases, shortage of judges and complex procedures, all of which are exacerbated by a preponderance of new laws ''. Most disturbing is the fact that corruption has reached the highest judicial forum i.e. Supreme Court of India. Some notable cases include : In April 2017, A judicial Magistrate Debanjan Ghosh gave bail to an murder accused, and it is alleged that it is unusual unless huge money is involved. In December 2009, legal activist and Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan stated in court, `` out of the last 16 to 17 Chief Justices, half have been corrupt '' In November 2010, former Law Minister, Shanti Bhushan echoed Prashant Bhushan 's claim. There have been allegations that judges with doubtful integrity were elevated within the higher judiciary and campaigns held for their impeachment. In November 2011, a former Supreme Court Justice Ruma Pal slammed the higher judiciary for what she called the seven sins. She listed the sins as : Turning a blind eye to the injudicious conduct of a colleague Hypocrisy -- the complete distortion of the norm of judicial independence Secrecy -- the fact that no aspect of judicial conduct including the appointment of judges to the High and Supreme Court is transparent Plagiarism and prolixity -- meaning that very often SC judges lift whole passages from earlier decisions by their predecessors and do not acknowledge this -- and use long - winded, verbose language Self Arrogance -- wherein the higher judiciary has claimed crass superiority and independence to mask their own indiscipline and transgression of norms and procedures Professional arrogance -- whereby judges do not do their homework and arrive at decisions of grave importance ignoring precedent or judicial principle Nepotism -- wherein favors are sought and dispensed by some judges for gratification of varying manner. In 2011, Soumitra Sen, former judge at the Calcutta High Court became the first judge in the India to be impeached by the Rajya Sabha for misappropriation of funds. Reform This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. ( June 2012 ) E-courts Mission mode project Main article : E-courts In India The E-courts project was established in the year 2005. According to the project, all the courts including taluk courts will get computerised. As per the project in 2008, all the District courts were initialised under the project. In 2010, all the District court were computerised. The entry of back log case has started. The IT department had one system officer and two system assistants in each court. They initiated the services in the Supreme Court in June 2011. The case lists and the judgements of most district courts are available in http://lobis.nic.in. in http://judis.nic.in is used to connect all High Courts and Supreme Court judgements and cause list. These websites are updated daily by a technical team. Now the establishment work is going on taluk courts. The project also includes producing witnesses through video conferencing. Filing cases, proceedings, and all other details will be in computers. Each district court contains 1 system officer and 2 system assistants. This technical manpower is involved in training the staff, updating web sites. Judicial service centre This is a part of e-court project. The judicial service centres are available in all court campus. The Public as well as the advocates can walk in directly and ask for the case status, stage and next hearing dates. This service is provided for free. History Jury trial The first jury trial decided by an English jury in India happened in Madras ( now Chennai ) in 1665, for which Ascentia Dawes ( probably a British woman ) was charged by a grand jury with the murder of her slave girl, and a petty jury, with six Englishmen and six Portuguese, found her not guilty. With the development of the East India Company empire in India, the jury system was implemented inside a dual system of courts : In Presidency Towns ( Calcutta, Madras, Bombay ), there were Crown Courts and in criminal cases juries had to judge British and European people ( as a privilege ) and in some cases Indian people ; and in the territories outside the Presidency Towns ( called `` moffussil '' ), there were Company Courts ( composed with Company officials ) without jury to judge most of the cases implying indigenous people. After the Crown Government of India ( Raj ) adopted the Indian Penal Code ( 1860 ) and the Indian Code of Criminal Procedure ( 1861, amended in 1872, 1882, 1898 ), the criminal jury was obligatory only in the High Courts of the Presidency Towns ; elsewhere, it was optional and rarely used. According sections 274 and 275 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the jury was composed from 3 ( for smaller offences judged in session courts ) to 9 ( for severe offences judges in High Courts ) men ; and when the accused were British and European, at least half of the jurors had to be British and European men. The jury found no place in the 1950 Indian Constitution, and it was ignored in many Indian states. The Law Commission recommended its abolition in 1958 in its 14th Report. Jury trials were abolished in India by a very discrete process during the 1960s, finishing with the 1973 Code of Criminal Procedure, which is still in force today. Without any proper study comparing existing judicial systems and without any effort to improve the system, it was claimed that the 8 : 1 acquittal of Kawas Nanavati in K.M. Nanavati v. 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Question: at present how many courts are functional in india
Answer: 151