In the premises of Hazaribagh Court, Mediation Awareness Programme and lok Adalat were organised on Saturday 26th July. District and Session Judge Nageshwar Prasad inaugurated the awareness programme and lok Adalat by lighting the lamp.
In his inaugural speech district judge Prasad said that on the directives of Supreme Court of India and initiative taken by the Governments Mediation Awareness Programmes and lok Adalats are regularly organised. Through these awareness programmes, we aim to convince the general people that negotiation is the best way to end a dispute. In lok Adalats people can get their cases finalised by negotiation with the opposite party.
Judges, magistrates and senior advocates of district court also talked about the benefits of solving a dispute by mediation. It not only saves the precious time of both the court and the parties but also decreases the financial burden on both the parties involved in the dispute.After the inaugural programme lok adalat started. In Saturday’s lok adalat 48 cases were disposed by seven benches. Majority of cases were of electricity department. Besides this, cases of BSNl, general registered civil, miscellaneous and matrimonial disputes were also disposed in the lok Adalat.
In Saturday’s lok Adalat, an agreement of payment of Rs2,054,755 was made by the benches between the parties to solve the dispute and the parties paid Rs2,03,4700 on the spot to close their case file. Judges of district court and advocates of Hazaribagh Bar worked hard to make the programme successful.