In pursuance to the directions of National Legal Services Authority, the 1st National Lok Adalat was held in Garhwa district on Saturday by the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), for amicable settlement of cases of different nature.
The National Lok Adalat was held under the insightful directions and patronage of the Acting Chief Justice, Justice Apresh Kumar Singh.
The matters placed before the benches included pre-litigation, pending cases in the courts particularly Civil, Criminal Compoundable, Cheque bounce, bank matters, MACT, matrimonial, electricity and pre-litigation matters, maintenance family disputes, civil disputes, land acquisition cases, revenue cases, grievances relating to women, children and disabled cases for settlement.
District court and subordinate judicial courts in the district have settled a total of 4061 cases, including criminal compoundable and pre-litigation bank cases and awarded settlements for total amount of Rupees 1, 88, 43, 127 to litigants in the National Lok Adalat .
Of the disputes settled on Saturday , 3, 300 pre-litigation cases and 724 pending cases, said a DLSA release.
Principal District and Sessions Judge Rajesh Sharan Singh who is also the Chairman of DLSA inaugurated the National Lok Adalat after lighting the lamp.
Speaking on the occasion Principal District and Sessions Judge Rajesh Sharan Singh said the primary objective of the lok adalats was to settle disputes amicably through compromise to save the time and money of the parties involved and to reduce personal enmity between them. Except, non-compoundable criminal cases, all kinds of cases even at pre-litigation stage, can be brought before the lok adalats for settlement.
Twenty benches in the district court at the district headquarters and Sub-Divisional headquarter Nagar Untari took up total 4,023 compoundable criminal cases, motor accident claim original petitions, bank recovery, cheque bounces and matrimonial cases for settlement and disposed all cases in the Lok Adalat, organised by the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA),Garhwa.
Principal District Judge Rajesh Sharan Singh, who is the chairman of DLSA inaugurated the Lok Adalat and chaired a bench with District Family Court Judge Ram Bachan Yaadav, Judge Permanent Lok Adalat K N Pandey , District and Sessions Judge (1) Sanjeev Kumar Singh, District and Sessions Judge (5th)Bimlesh Kumar Sahay, District and Sessions Judge Manoj Kumar Tripathi, District and Sessions Judge Nagar Untari Santosh Anand Prasad, Chief Judicial Magistrate Arbind Kachhap, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Nagar Untari Sangita, ACJM Garhwa Veena Kumari, SDJM Amit Khana, SDJM Nagar Untari Ravi Chaudhary, Judicial Magistrates Krishna Lohara, Sharat Nishikant, Kanishk Rathore, Harashit Tiwari, Abhinav Kumar, Vijay Kumar Das and Chairman of District Consumer Forum Om Prakash Pandey chaired the benches in the district court.