Administrative law serves as the backbone of public governance, regulating how government agencies exercise their powers and establish rules that affect citizen’s daily lives. At the heart of administrative law lie fundamental principles that safeguard individual rights while enabling effective governance. These principles act as guardrails, preventing arbitrariness and ensuring that governmental action remains within constitutional and statutory boundaries.

Every Union Territory is to be administered by the President. Acting through an administrator appointed by him with such designation as may specify. But this is subject to any law made by Parliament.

In every State, The High Court is the Head of the Judiciary. Below the High Court, in every State, there is a system of Subordinate Courts. All the control over Subordinate Courts in relation to posting and promotion of, and the grant of leave to, persons in the Judicial service of a State shall be vested in the High Court.

India has been well described as having a Federal Constitution with some Unitary Features.  Which we also term as having a Quasi-Federal Constitution. But, primarily we are a Federal State, and one of the most essential features of federalism is the Distribution of Powers. A Federal Constitution establishes a form of Government where neither the Centre nor the State is subordinate to the other in its own fields. The Authority of one is co-ordinate with that of the other.

It declares that every High Court shall be a Court of record; and Shall have all the powers of such a Court, including the power to punish for contempt of itself. A Court of Record is such a Court whose records are admitted to be of evidentiary value and they are NOT to be questioned when they are produced before any Court.