As many as 2,142 cases were disposed of during the National lok Adalat, held at Hazaribagh, as per the instruction of the Supreme Court of India. The number of cases is expected to increase as at time of filing the report, the proceedings of lok Adalat were going on.
To dispose of the cases selected for this National lok Adalat 24 benches were constituted. In the evening at about 5:30 settlements were going on in a few benches. The lok Adalat was inaugurated at 10:30 am by Justice Prashant Kumar of Jharkhand High Court and distributed the cheques of Motor Vehicles Act cases to those who claimed it from the insurance companies. Zonal Judge then reported about the National lok Adalat of Hazaribagh to Chief Justice R Banumati through videoconferencing.
District Judge and his associates were regularly monitoring the proceedings of lok Adalat. In every bench with magistrate, one or two advocates were also in duty for speedy disposal of the cases. DAlSA secretary Rashikesh Kumar said that till 5:30 pm settlement of different cases where made on an amount of more than Rs 2 crores and about Rs 1.30 crore were recovered. He also informed that in the lok Adalat, which was held between 19th to 22nd November, more than 800 cases were disposed.