Judiciary as an Organ of the Government

When your college disqualifies you from an exam over an alleged malpractice, you do not go back to the same committee that disqualified you — you go to court. That instinct, that someone independent of the accuser should decide the dispute, is the entire reason the judiciary exists as its own organ of government, standing apart from the body that makes the rules and the body that enforces them.

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The judiciary is the organ of government that interprets law, settles disputes and checks whether the legislature and executive have stayed within constitutional limits — and in India it does this with a degree of activism, through Public Interest Litigation, that goes well beyond simply deciding the cases brought before it.

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