A total of 18,592 cases belonging to civil, criminal, labour, revenue, insurance, bank litigation, forest, consumer and family dispute were amicably settled in the National lok Adalat held here on the Saturday.
District Judge AK Mahaptra, Additional Judges BK Chand, S Patel and SS Jena, besides Chief Judicial Magistrate RK Nayak along with other magistrates participated in the reconciliation proceedings. The Adalat settled 199 motor accident claim cases and awarded `4.27 crore to the claimants while it collected over `2.5 crore as fine.
District legal aid services authority secretary Manas Ranjan Rath organised the Adalat, while District Judge Mahapatra conducted the proceedings.
In Kendrapada district also the 3rd National lok Adalat was organised on Saturday in the premises of the District Judge and Sessions Court. As many as 9,732 cases were disposed of through mutual consent and agreement where as a sum of `3.72 crore was released towards compensation, fine and bank loan.
Revenue courts, criminal courts and civil courts were set up to deal with pending cases ranging from civil to criminal cases, motor accident claims, consumer cases, revenue cases ,matrimonial disputes and bank cases.
According to sources, the benches settled 76 civil cases and provided a sum of `7.61 lakh to the defendants whereas 110 motor vehicle accident cases were disposed of and a sum of `1.26 crore as compensation provided to the deceased’s family members and to the injured. The Adalat settled 1,475 criminal cases and collected a fine of `1.86 lakh. In 7,141 revenue cases, the Adalat settled all the cases and collected a fine amount of `9.47 lakh. Similarly, 869 bank-related cases were settled and a sum of about `2.27 crore was recovered as loan debts. 64 banks from the district joined.
District legal Aid Service secretary Udayabhanu Jana, Additional District Judge Kirti Chandra Barik, CJM Rabinarayan Panda, Registrar Civil Court Hrushikesh Acharya, Civil Judge (senior division) Niranjan Panda, Civil Judge Junior Division Sandip Patnaik, JMFC Kendrapada Manas Kumar Panda and Court Manager Supriti Patnaik participated.
The 3rd National lok Adalat was also organised by the District legal Services Authority in the Civil Court premises at Rayagada which was inaugurated by District Judge and Chairman legal Services Authority Janab Md Ajmal.
likewise lok Adalats were also held at Bisssam Cuttack, Kashipur and Gunupur Taluks of the district. A total of 26,538 cases were disposed of in the district including criminal, civil and revenue cases. A sum of `42, 95,888 was realized as fine. All judicial, revenue and bank officials participated.
Additional District Judge Asim Dalabehera and other judges including Rajesh Ekka, Prabhakar Ganthia, Sabitri Nayak, lopamudra Malla, Kailash Sahu, Nihar Ranjan Sahu, Pruthiraj Pradhan, Annapurna Sadangi and Ipsita Mohanty participated. District legal Services Authority secretary Dr MI Nabi coordinated.
In Jeypore of Koraput district, the lok Adalat settled over 4,000 cases. District Judge Rabi Narayan Mishra, ADJ Subrat Mohanty, District legal Services Authority secretary Raj Kishore Dash were present.
Similarly the 3rd National lok Adalat was held in the premises of Parlakhemundi, Mohana and R Udaygiri courts, where 9,318 cases were disposed of. District Judge and Gajapati District legal Service Authority secretary Gopal Chandra Patnaik inaugurated the Adalat at Parlakhemundi. Sub Judge Banu Dhar Patra, Pragyan Panigrahi, Prajyoti Rauto, Akhik Kumar Paschimkabat, Rajesh Kumar Nair, Raghunanda Das, Sushri Sandhy Ratha, Rashmi Rekha Patra and Sanga Mitra Biswal participated. Tehsildars of all blocks of Gajapati, RTO, bank representatives joined. Fine worth `47, 06,361 was collected.