Justice RN lodha of Supreme court through video conferencing would open three free legal aid clinics in the district of Palamu on January 24, said sources in the court. Justice lodha is the executive chairman of the National legal Services Authority Delhi.
Secretary of the Palamu legal services authority K K Jha has confirmed the opening of three legal aid clinics in Palamu on January 24 through video conferencing by Justice lodha of the Supreme Court.
The three legal aid clinics are coming up at Haidernagar, Satgawan and at Shahpur. These places Haidernagar, Satgawan and Shahpur fall in three sub-divisions of Palamu namely Hussainabad, Chhaterpur and Sadar sub-divisions respectively. KK Jha said on January 24 NAlSA is to open 3 free legal aid clinics in 3 sub-divisions of each of the districts in the country. Palamu’s share is three.
A free legal aid clinic is manned by a lawyer and a PlV (para-legal volunteer). The PlV comes from the locality where the free legal aid clinic is so set up. It is done in order to have a better and effective interaction on disputes. A PlV is a trained law personnel with a bare minimum knowledge of law and its acts. Court sources said at one free legal aid clinic at Kelhar in Paton block of Palamu there had come a case where the petitioner had urged the free legal aid clinic officials (lawyer & PlV) to intervene and get reduce the volume of sound on DJ system there! The Kelhar legal aid clinic PlV Vinay Kumar had confirmed it.
At another free legal aid clinic at Parwa a woman sought legal help as her husband had left her to her fate and the woman was in die distress. This case had come up right before the principal district and sessions judge Palamu civil court Vishnu Kant Sahay in the year 2013. Cases of varied nature com like grazing, harassment, domestic violence, neglect of parents by their sons, denial of property to widows, issue of second woman causing torture to first wife, sexual exploitation giving inducement of marriage, wife bashing, for even seeking hep to get death certificate from block offices in case of inordinate delay in its issuance, for disability pension, tree felling, for old age pension.