Supreme Court Judge and National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) Executive Chairman Justice U.U. Lalit virtually witnessed the proceedings of the National Lok Adalat of Dantewada, Jagdalpur and Keshkal in Chhattisgarh on Saturday.
Chhattisgarh State Legal Services Authority Member Secretary Siddharth Aggarwal told the media that along with Justice Lalit, Justice Prashant Kumar, Acting Chief Justice of the High Court of Chhattisgarh, also witnessed the proceedings.
The Lok Adalat was conducted by Abdul Zahid Qureshi, District Judge Dantewada, Nidhi Sharma Tiwari Additional District Judge, Jagdalpur, and Puneet Ram Gurupanch, Judicial Magistrate First Class, Keshkal.
In one of the proceedings in Dantewada, a translator explained the proceedings to the parties in Halbi language. As the parties agreed, the presiding officer passed an award of Rs 12 lakhs.
Aggrawal said Chhattisgarh was the first state in the country which had organized first E-Lok Adalat on July 11, 2020 when the Covid-19 pandemic was at its peak.