National LokAdalat held on pan – India basis across J&K, Ladakh
SRINAGAR: The J&K Legal Services Authority (LSA) and Ladakh LSA on Saturday organized National Lok Adalat across the respective UTs.
It was advised to organize pre-lok Adalat sittings or pre-counselling sessions well before the date of National Lok Adalat so that parties may get one or more chances for entering into negotiation/dialogue with the opposite parties.
This was done in order to have maximum response and settlements between the parties in cases like MACT, matrimonial, cheque bounce cases under NI Act and money recovery cases.
Apart from this, webinars were organized to sensitize the officers of LSA, committees, Panel Lawyers and PLVs about the importance of Lok Adalat as a mode for Alternate Dispute Resolution.
Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey Executive Chairman, J&K LSA, Justice Tashi Rabstan Executive Chairman Ladakh LSA and Justice Sanjeev Kumar Chairman High Court Legal Services Committee had physical and virtual conferences with all the stakeholders before the National Lok Adalat. They impressed upon them to educate the litigants about the benefits of settlements of disputes through ADR especially National Lok Adalat and make the upcoming National Lok Adalat a grand success.
As per the information received from the districts, out of a total number of 1,26,599 cases taken up by 151 Benches in the day long National Lok Adalat at various courts across the UT of J&K, 1,10,224 Cases were disposed of and an amount of Rs. 66,96,34,416/- was awarded as compensation amount in civil, criminal, labour disputes, Electricity and Water Bills cases, Land Acquisition, Family matters, cheque dishonor and Bank Recovery cases. Likewise in Ladakh a total of 531 Cases were taken up by eight benches and 381 cases were disposed of and an amount of Rs. 7925408 was awarded as settlement amount in civil, criminal, labour disputes, Electricity and Water Bills cases, land acquisition, family matters, cheque dishonor and bank recovery cases.
M K Sharma, Member Secretary J&K and Ladakh LSA thanked all the participants including the judicial officers, secretaries DLSA’s, Advocates, representatives of insurance companies and banks, staff of the courts and Legal Services Institutions & litigants for their pragmatic approach in settlement of cases in such a large number.
