A large number of cases were disposed of at the 4th Rastriya lok Adalat held under chairmanship of Ganjam District Judge and District legal Services Authority (DlSA) Chairman Malay Ranjan Dash here on Saturday.
Four benches led by Dash, MACT Judge Ananda Chandra Behera, Additional District Judge I Rekha Prasad and Additional District Judge II Nilgiri Jena conducted hearings.
About 79 cases of the motor vehicle accidents were decided and a total of compensation of Rs 2, 69, 13,500 was awarded to victims.
Members of four general insurances company and other private insurance companies were present during the bench hearing.
Apart from this, 946 criminal cases were heard and fine of Rs 3,22,20,913 was collected. Similarly, 31 civil cases and 57 pre-litigation cases were heard and Rs 37, 24,163 was collected.
The civil and pre-litigation cases were heard by senior Civil Judge Gyanendra Kumar Barik, Additional Senior Civil Judge Bidyadhara Prusty and Junior Civil Judge Poonam Jena.
The criminal cases were heard by SDJM Sarita Mohanty and other JMFCs.