Grassroots Justice Law, System and People

and People D Bandyopadhyay To remedy the present atrophy of the process of justice at the grassroots even partially an elective system for administration of justice with a positive bias in favour of the rural poor has to be developed from below. Towards this end, the author proposes a judicial committee, directly elected by a special electorate comprising the rural poor, attached to the lowest tier of panchayati raj institutions.