NCERT Solutions for Exploring Society: India and Beyond Chapter 11 The Role of the Judiciary in Our Society
Updated on 2026-09-05
About this chapter
Justice is what keeps a society peaceful and lets people live with equality and dignity . The Judiciary is the institution which ensures fair adjudication of disputes in accordance with the law. It is one of the three pillars of the government, independent of the legislature and the executive. The government's way to ensure justice is by framing laws — but a law can itself be unjust. India has repealed over 1500 laws enacted under British rule, such as the Criminal Tribes Act, 1871 and the Vernacular Press Act, 1878. Elsewhere, the Jim Crow laws in parts of the United States were repealed in the 1960s and apartheid laws in South Africa in 1991. Justice has two aspects. Substantive justice asks whether the final outcome is fair, just and reasonable. Procedural justice asks whether every per
- Chapter opener
- The Supreme Court of India
- High Court
- Subordinate Courts
- –142End of chapter
Exercises
- Chapter opener — The Big Questions Page 125
- Chapter opener, before ‘The Connection Between Law and Justice’ — LET’S EXPLORE Page 127
- The Supreme Court of India — DON’T MISS OUT Page 130
- High Court — LET’S EXPLORE Page 135
- Subordinate Courts — LET’S EXPLORE Page 136
- –142End of chapter — Questions and Activities Page 141