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It is worthwhile to read humanists and social scientists curiously and rigorously- but many courses offered as such do not meet that standard.
I was interested in public law and society and theory courses myself when I was in college. While some of those courses made me a much better lawyer and thinker and person, many should never have been offered. Especially vanity courses by pseudo academics who really only want to talk about their lives and build a fanclub in classes instead of seriously engaging with difficult material.
I also think this is true for many courses offered in private law. You do not need an entire four credit course to study one chapter of the companies act. That’s just a scam course.
Law and economics courses also do a very poor job of actually imparting skills- you can pass through most law and ec without a basic understanding of differences between debt and deficit and gdp and per capita income, or really even understanding public policy decisions that try to manipulate supply or demand. and certainly without knowing anything about actually “doing” economics. I would actually wager most law students wouldn’t know how to read a scatter plot, evaluate p values or samples. Statistical illiteracy means you really won’t be able to make sense of most law and economics research and will just take any study at face value.
The truncated 5 year programme makes it very hard to learn any BA courses properly - including economics.
Your problem isn’t really that there are too easy courses in certain areas. Your problem is that there is a serious lack of rigor across the board in Indian academia.