Indian courts are a big costume drama
In the days of British Raj, the rulers used the judiciary to overawe us, their subjects whom they referred to as "natives". And so they had judges in full British costumes with the servants and bodyguards in Indian costumes, and this made it amply clear to us that they were in charge of our country. Judiciary was a tool to make us dependent on our colonial masters for resolving our own disputes. The British were fantastic at running such colonial courts throughout the length and breadth of their empire, with similar methods. They made a great show of justice and fairness, and succeeded in convincing us that our Indian laws and methods of dispute resolution were totally inferior, and that there was no substitute for British justice. This huge costume drama impressed upon us that King George or whoever -- and his minions, the judges, had an indisputable authority over even the Indian kings, princes and upper classes. India's masses had no choice but to fall in line! ...