We started off to get our hands dirty in the field; questioning at first, and then questioning some more.
Ours was a rather unfamiliar topic for the rest of the class (other topics being Solid waste management, Experiences of pre-schoolers, Waiting, First Response and Water). To begin with, we had to understand the system of Judiciary ourself, at all its different levels, to then be able to analyse, appreciate and criticize it.
But right at this point, a mosquito bit and the two of us split.
So, for the next two weeks it was Shivani at one end and Prithvi at the other. While the former recovered and tried to do some research from Allahabad, the latter ran around from police stations to courts to offices in Ahmedabad, back and forth with permission letters, and then revised permission letters to the whims and fancies of government officials.
In the midst of all this, there were interviews of police officers, lawyers, judges, administrative officers and office clerks along with several courtroom and police station visits in Ahmedabad and Allahabad.
Some of the initial mapping of the procedures
A graphical representation of a courtroom
A division bench. The judges' chairs at the back and the secretary/steno's seat to take dictations in front.
At the end of the two separated weeks, on the last day of August, the two wavered souls re-united in the spirit of Judiciary, and things started to make sense again.
And then it was time for some serious mapping.
From the FIR to the Courts
Plus the sub-systems around Judiciary (not so exhaustive a list, we realised)
Mapping of interviews of High Court Judges
Finally, we SOMEWHAT knew what went about in the complexities of this system!
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