A lok Adalat was held at Civil Court premises on Thursday in which 34 cases were settled through seven Benches and collected amount Rs1,6,7100. The lok Adalat was presided over by Dinesh Kumar Singh, Principal District and Sessions Judge Koderma. The motto of the lok Adalat are to secure that opportunities for securing justice and fundamental rights are not denied to any citizens by reasons of poor economic conditions and other disabilities, said Principal Judge. In order to clear the backlog of pending cases and pre-litigation matters, the district legal services authority (DlSA) at the district court organises the monthly lok Adalat at various courts under its jurisdiction, he added. Seema Sinha Principal Judge of family court said “Awareness about lok Adalat seeks more sensitisation so that more and more recovery suits of pending cases were taken up.”