CBSE Class 8 Answered

• The judicial system is stratified into various levels in our country.
• The head of all the courts is the Supreme Court which is located in New Delhi and is presided over by the Chief Justice of India.
  
• It is then followed by the High Courts at the state level, which is the highest court of that state.
• Each state is divided into districts that are presided over by a District Judge. These courts work under the control of the High Courts.
• Finally comes the Lok Adalats at the village and the Panchayat level.

Need for Hierarchy:

It is necessary to have hierarchy of courts because each courts have different responsibilites i.e. lower courts are given minor or a little less important cases, while the higher courts adjudicate more serious cases. Also, as judges are humans there is a possibility that they can make mistakes too. Therefore, various levels of courts act as sufficient checks to this human vulnerability.