The Court of District and Sessions Judge Dantewada , was established in 02.10.2003. In the Normal areas of Dantewada, the court of the District Judge, Munsiff and others try civil cases arising there from. The courts come under the Code of Civil Procedure 1908 and other laws defining their territorial and pecuniary jurisdiction, etc. In criminal matters, courts of the Sessions Judge, The Chief Judicial Magistrate and other Judicial Magistrate are set up under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 2004.