Hectic preparations are on for the coming national lok adalat which is slated for December 6 ( repeat December 6).
The poor in Palamu are looking forward to this December 6 national lok adalat wherein the poor get immense relief. The faceless in lok adalats get a face, the voiceless their voice in such a lok adalat said sources.
A lawyer had this remark that the law does not make any distinction between any have and have not but surely the lok adalat is for the commoners as its nomenclature ‘lok’ stands itself. The poor facing cases under various compoundable offences of the forest act look most eagerly towards the lok adalat especially the national one. Sources said poor having no proper clothes on their bodies are booked for offences under forest act who get a major reprieve in lok adalat.
An IPS officer said the police find it extreme hard to pursue in such cases as the alleged accused is so poor and ignorant that one has to think twice about him. Sources said there are big and powerful borrowers of banks who are willful defaulters but there are poor borrowers too who for circumstances and situation become a defaulter and such a poor borrower gets enormous relief in lok adalat.
The Pioneer had earlier done a story where a poor had taken a loan of just 10,000 rupees which he could not pay in time and the bank began to chase him for the borrowed money but when he came to the lok adalat he was heard and his fiscal worries were well taken care of .
Consumers of electricity here in Palamu just eagerly wait for lok adalat as here in such an adalat their grievances and complaints are not only heard but also solved. The complaints of electricity are too many like over billing, delay in giving new power connection, delay in replacement of burnt out or defective meter etc.
Sources said civil court in Palamu has earned a mark for successful strings of lok adalats as heavy turn out of people in lok adalats here bespeak volumes of its benefits.