SRINAGAR: The 3rd National Lok Adalat (NLA) was organized today across the Kashmir Division by District Legal Service Authorities (DLSA) under the patronage of J&K Legal Services Authority to help parties to settle the disputes & cases amicably through mutual agreements and compromise.
National Lok Adalats were organised under the able guidance and directions of Justice N. Kotiswar Singh, the Chief Justice of High Court of J&K and Ladakh (Patron-in-Chief) J&K Legal Services Authority and Justice Tashi Rabstan, Executive Chairman J&K Legal Services Authority at District Court Complex Mominabad, Srinagar.
Cases for settlement included cases of Civil, Criminal Compoundable, Cheque bounce, Traffic Challans, Bank matters, MACT, Land Compensation, Matrimonial, Electricity and Pre-litigation matters. Further, Pre-litigation matters were taken up, which included PDD matters, bank recovery matters, PHE cases, Social Welfare Schemes, matrimonial disputes, land disputes, BSNL cases, municipality cases and other Government schemes etc.
In Srinagar, The National Lok Adalat (NLA) was inaugurated by Jawad Ahmed Chairman DLSA Srinagar, District Court Complex Srinagar in the presence of Judicial officers of District Srinagar.
The zenith of the event was the gracious visit of Justice Atul Sreedharan, Judge High Court of J&K and Ladakh (Administrative Judge for District Srinagar) to various benches constituted by DLSA Srinagar for settlement of cases. Justice Atul Sreedharan also distributed compensation cheques in Motor Vehicle accident-related cases to the tune of Rs. 13,659,065 among the beneficiaries. This symbolic gesture symbolizes the essence of Lok Adalat which seeks to alleviate the suffering of deserving and needy.
Each Court had identified cases for the Lok Adalat beforehand and the same were placed before Eleven (11) different benches constituted by DLSA Srinagar for settlement in National Lok Adalat.
In Motor Vehicle accident-related cases Lok-Adalat bench of Jeema Bashir and Aarti Mohan awarded compensation to the tune of Rs.437,80,757 and in bank cases, the bench of Arvind Sharma and Renu Dogra awarded a settlement amount of Rs. 90,24,203.
A total of 48316 matters were taken up for their amicable settlement, out of which 40962 were settled. Besides, an amount of Rs. 19,96,37,423 was realized in the settlement.
