District court in the district here settled a total of 724 cases, including criminal compoundable and
pre-litigation bank cases and awarded settlements for a total amount of Rs. 1.34 crore to litigants in
the National Lok Adalat held here on Saturday.
Eighteen benches – took up 815 compoundable criminal cases, motor accident claim original
petitions, bank recovery, cheque bounces and matrimonial cases for settlement and disposed of 724
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 after lighting a lamp. On the occasion, Principal District and Sessions Judge said that Alternate
Dispute Resolution system is one of the effective modes of disposal of cases and litigants should
avail and participate in Lok Adalats as and when conducted by the courts. In Lok Adalat both the
parties go home happily and both parties have a win-win situation.
Free assistance is given to poor people and women. He appealed to the people that even after the
smallest things, they should be settled in the Lok Adalat with mutual consent so that a cordial
environment is maintained in the village society.
District Judge, Family Court, Ram Bachan Singh, District and Sessions Judge one Sanjiv Kumar Singh,
District and Sessions Judge Fifth Vimlesh Kumar Sahai, Chief Judicial Magistrate Santosh Anand
Prasad, ACJM Amit Kumar Vaishya, and Judicial Magistrates Veena Kumari, Krishna Lohara etc.
chaired the benches in the district court.