A three-day mediation camp started on Monday at District Legal Service Authority premises in Ranchi civil court to resolve family disputes pending in courts.
Officials informed that 39 cases were taken up in the camp on the first day out of which 22 were resolved.
A press communiqué from the DLSA stated that one of the resolved cases was of a couple Abdul Rashid and Afsana Khatun. Khatun had registered a case under Dowry act against Rashid. The mediator however helped husband and the wife resolve their dispute and agree to live together with their children. In another case a man agreed to provide Rs 4500 per months as maintenance to his father.
The DLSA secretary Fahim Kirmani stated that mediation was providing cheap and early justice to people. He said a petitioner could approach the mediation centre and get their dispute resolved adding the camp would last till September 26.