In the wake of COVID-19 crisis processes for the first divorce in State through video conferencing took place in Ranchi. The Ranchi Arbitration Center situated at Ranchi Family Court settled a case of family dispute by arbitration through video conferencing.
As per the order of Executive president of Jhalsa, Justice HC Mishra, the process of mediation in the District Legal Services Authority, Ranchi started through video conferencing. In order to doing so, mediator Nirmal Ranjan on Thursday successfully settled the marital dispute through video conferencing.
In the said suit, the petitioner who was first party, Prabhakar Mishra and opposition who was second party and accused, Manjuri Mishra. The suit was sent to the Arbitration Court, Ranchi from the chief judge, Family Court on December 14 in which the agreement was reached through video conferencing on May 13 by both the parties. Due to lack of good relations between the two sides in the suit, the two sides could not be reconciled.
Both the parties have been living separately since June 25, 2017 and they wanted divorce. The applicant is willing to pay a lump sum of Rs.5,00,000 to the opposition, which is also agreed upon by the opposition. Applicants will give the above amount in two installments.
Demand draft dated February 21, 2020 issued by Union Bank of India has given to opposition party with amount of Rupees 2,50,000 (Rupees two lakh fifty thousand only) and on February 25, 2020, the receipt has been issued by the opposition to the applicant.
Opposition Advocate Amarjeet Kumar Sinha will give the remaining amount of Rs. 2,50,000 (Rupees Two Lakh and Fifty Thousand only) through demand draft till May, 15. Letter of Authority has been issued by the opposition to Amarjeet Kumar Sinha in this regard.
After receiving the total amount, both the parties and their family members' will not bring any claim on each other in any Court. In this way, the said litigation was resolved, expert arbitrator Nirmal Ranjan and first party advocate Nikhil Mishra and second party advocate Amarjit Kumar Sinha contributed to settle the case.