Judges with court staff conducted a drive to clean the surroundings of the District Sessions Court premises on Sunday as part of the Swachh Bharat campaign.
District Sessions Judge Rajendra Panigrahi, Family Court Judge Sanjeeb Dube, Additional District Judge Gouribala Mohorana, Chief Judicial Magistrate Rajkishor Mohapatro, Sub Judge Choudhari Prabir Kumar, Registrar Siba Prasad Mohapatra, Secretary District legal Aid Services Authority Alpana Swain, Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate Amaresh Mohapatra led the clean drive around the court campus in which around 50 court staff participated.
They cleaned the surroundings of the court and removed weeds, waste materials and boulders.
District Judge Panigrahi said, “We believe this will encourage others to involve themselves to clean their surroundings.”
later, a second National lok Adalat was held on the premises of the court. Cases related to civil, criminal and motor vehicle accident claims were settled.
As many as 55 pending cases of criminal and civil were heard and fine of Rs 1,80,160 was collected. Similarly one motor vehicle claim case was settled and Rs 10 lakh insurance claim awarded to the victims’ relatives. Three bank loan cases were settled and Rs 1, 42,000 was collected.