SRINAGAR: In pursuance to the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) calendar, and under the directions of Jammu and Kashmir Legal Services Authority, the 4th National Lok Adalat of the year 2024 was on Saturday held across all the District Courts of Kashmir by the respective District Legal Services Authorities (DLSAs) for amicable settlement of cases of different nature.
The National Lok Adalat was held under the insightful directions of Justice Tashi Rabstan, Chief Justice, High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, who also serves as the Patron-in-Chief & Executive Chairman J&K Legal Services Authority and Justice Atul Sreedharan, Executive Chairman J&K Legal Services Authority.
Lok Adalat is an alternative dispute redressal mechanism where disputes and cases pending in courts of law or at the pre-litigation stage are settled or compromised amicably to reduce the load on the regular court system.
The matters placed before the benches included cases of Civil, Criminal Compoundable, Cheque bounce, 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, Labour, Revenue, Matrimonial disputes, land disputes, BSNL cases, municipality cases and other Government schemes etc.
