Role of Judiciary to social Justice in Guwahati city: a social geographic analysis

Abstract

The prevalence of social justice is very high among the affluent sections of the society. It is also necessary where the violation of constitutional or legal rights of a large number of people including the poor, ignorant or socially or economically disadvantaged takes place. Further, due to legislative insecurity and lack of appropriate action taken by the administration or authorities in time, people suffer from social justice in a variety ways and at the same time the people of all ladders, i.e. from the higher to the bottom socio-economic levels cannot fight equally for social justice, when such an occasion arises. Here arises the need to protect the people for social justice and therefore, the role of judiciary is highly crucial for delivering justice to the deprived. Thus, law is the vehicle of social justice and judiciary being the guardian of social justice, executive being the distribution of social justice, legislative shall be for social legislations, the executive and the judiciary together can make untiring efforts for providing the underprivileged and poor for securing social justice in time. In this paper an attempt has been made to throw light on the role of judiciary in access to social justice in Guwahati city, as the state administration as well as judiciary has completely failed to ensure to this group of people in the city of Guwahati both spatially and socially. The paper has been done on the basis of both primary and secondary data.