In a bid to provide proper opportunity for reunion to the couples who have been indulged in legal disputes in family courts, a special drive on mediation related to matrimonial disputes was carried out in 11 districts of Jharkhand where a total of 243 cases were disposed of thorough mutual consensus among both the parties. “A four day special drive on October 3 to 6 was carried out in 11 districts of Jharkhand to give an opportunity to the couples for reunion whose cases were pending in family courts. We succeeded in resolving a huge number of cases through mediation in all 11 districts,” said Jharkhand State legal Services Authority (JHAlSA) Member Secretary Arun Kumar Rai.
Special drive was carried out in Giridih, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Godda, Pakur, Sahebganj, Deoghar, Dumka, Hazaribagh and Bokaro.
A minimum of 80 cases were referred to each of the districts, said Rai. “In a first of its kind initiative taken by Jharkhand legal Services Authority (JHAlSA), exchange of mediators and master trainers were done among the districts for getting maximum output of the drive,” added the Member Secretary. DlSA Jamshedpur topped the list in resolving maximum number of cases during the last four days with a success rate of 53 cases out of a total of 146 cases referred to it for mediation.
“We are leaders in resolving maximum number of cases in Jharkhand. Out of a total of 146 cases referred to us, we succeeded in disposing of 53 cases while 15 remained unsettled. Rest of the cases remained non-turn up where one or both the parties did not appear for mediation,” said DlSA Jamshedpur Secretary BK lal. It was made possible due to expert mediators who had come from Ranchi and Bokaro to guide us for the same, he added.
In order to support special drive being carried out in Jamshedpur a group of experts had been called from Ranchi and Jamshedpur which includes – Businessman Girish Malhotra, senior journalist SK Srivastava, Advocate Ashok Kumar Rai and Psychiatrist Joy Mitra. Whereas in Ranchi, 49 cases got settled out of 128 cases referred to Ranchi DlSA. “Out of 128 cases, 42 remained non turn-up while 46 got adjourned for further sitting. Only 5 cases remained unsettled,” stated an official release of DlSA.