Know our Indian Judicial Heirarchy

Part 1:

This post is specifically intended to help the reader to understand the Indian judicial hierarchy starting from Junior Civil Judge to Cheif Justice of India and will also try to extend in describing the jurisdictions of each level in the Indian Judiciary. 

Every state has a HighCourt which is the top most judiciary body of the state which controls the various courts at every district level. 

Administrative Flow 

Highcourt--->District court--->Cheif Judicial Magistrate Court--->Sub Court --->Judicial Magistrate (or) District Munsif 

Let us view the it from lower level(District Level and Taluk level) 

For e.g Let us take a Dharmapuri district of TamilNadu state 

Note - This level slightly or marginally differs among different states of India. 

DHARMAPURI

Here DharmaPuri District has four Taluks,So every Taluk has a JM(or/&)DM courts."Harur" which is a quite big Taluk has an "Sub Court" since it has to handle wider Territorial jurisdiction when compared to other Taluks.DharmaPuri Being the District Head Quarter Has the District Court which is the Primary Administrative body of the District Judicial System.

Part 2

In Part 2,Let us have a wider view on the Indian Judicial System.  

1. Every state in India has a High Court at it's state Head Quarter(there are some exceptions e.g UP where High court is located at Allahabad).  

2. For effective administration and quicker disposal of the backlogs nowadays ,Benches of the State High court is appointed or created at a geographically reasonable city in the state.For e.g Madurai City in TamilNadu state has a bench of High court of Madras(TN state's HC).  

3. Every State High court is composed of set of Judges and a Cheif Justice(Superior among the Judges and he/she is the head of the State Judicial hierarchy.  

4. Number of High court judges in a state is purely depends on the size of the state and as well as pendency of cases earlier Number was very little but these days the Number of High court judges on each has a significant rise.  

5. Usually every Senior High court judges in the state will have supervisory control over certain districts in the state(called as portfolio judges).

6. Supreme Court of India which is the apex and topmost Judicial body of the Country is composed of 25 Judges and 1 Cheif Justice of India.  

7. Senior Most judges of the SC will constitute to a body called "Collegium of Judges" which place a central role in deciding the elevation of t Judges and Cheif justices of various states to their next level.  

8. Administrative Flow:

Cheif Justice of India--->Supreme Court judges--->Cheif Justice of State High Court --->Judge of State High Court