District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), Srinagar, has organized a National Lok Adalat at District Court Complex in which hundreds of people participated for amicable settlement of their cases

District Legal Services Authorities (DLSAs), on Dec 14, organized series of National Lok Adalats in District Court Complexes at all the district headquarters across Kashmir region in over 330 cases were settled.

In this regard District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), Srinagar, today organized a National Lok Adalat here at District Court Complex Momin Abad, Batamaloo in which hundreds of people participated for amicable settlement of their cases.

A total number of 1843 Cases were taken up for their amicable settlement out of which 1458 Cases were settled. Besides, Rs. 21865000 was awarded as compensation by MACT Srinagar and Rs 8185500 has been collected as settlement amount by different courts. Fine of Rs, 518500 has also been collected during the program.

National Lok Adalat was formally inaugurated by Principal District and Session Judge, Abdul Rashid Malik who is also the chairman of DLSA.

“National Lok Adalat is held throughout the country after every three months with the purpose of easing access to justice for the common people through amicable consensual settlement without wasting of time in prolonged litigation,” Malik said.

Secretary DLSA, Adnan Saeed informed that a total of nine benches were constituted in Srinagar for amicable settlement of numerous cases out of which eight benches were held at District Court Complex Momin Abad, Batamaloo and one bench was held at Pantha Chowk.

Bench No.1 comprised of Principal District and Sessions Judge Srinagar Abdul Rashid Malik and Suresh Chanderkatal Presiding Officer MACT Court Srinagar.

Bench No.2 comprised of Additional District and Session Judge Srinagar Sanjay Parihar and 2nd Additional Munsiff Muneer Ahmed.

Bench No. 3 comprised of Additional District and Session Judge Bank Cases Srinagar Balbir Lal and Bisma Khan Advocate (Retainer lawyer).

Bench No.4 comprised of Chief Judicial Magistrate Srinagar Gowhar Majeed Dalal and Sub Registrar Srinagar Fariqa Nazir.

Bench No.5 comprised of Sub-Judge, Forest Magistrate Srinagar Manoj Parihar and 1st Additional Munsiff Srinagar Tabraiz Ahmad.

Bench No.6 comprised of PT &E Magistrate Srinagar Umi Kulsoom and 3rd Additional Munsiff Srinagar Fozia Paul.

Bench No. 7comprised of Special Mobile Magistrate Traffic Srinagar Yahya Firdous and Mir Naveed Gul Advocate (Panel lawyer).

Bench No.8 comprised of Additional Mobile Magistrate Traffic Srinagar Mir Wajahat and Shuja Khan Advocate (Retainer lawyer).

Bench No. 9 comprised of Masarat Jabeen (Additional special Mobile Magistrate (13th FC) Pantha Chowk Srinagar and President Bar Association Pantha chowk(Member).

AT BUDGAM: A day long National Lok Adalat was organized by District Legal Services Authority Budgam in District Court Complex Budgam under the chairmanship of Principal District and Sessions Judge Budgam Raja Shujaat Ali here today.

Munsiff Judge Budgam Tabasum Qadir Parray along with senior Advocate Syed Sajad Geelani as member presided over the National Lok Adalat in Munsiff Court Budgam.

During the Adalat, hundreds of cases related to different nature were put up for hearing and subsequently a large number of cases among them were settled on spot through mutual consent, understandings between the concerned parties. However, an amount of Rs 1 lakh as compensation was recovered from the defaulter involved in cheque bounce case.

Cases pertaining to criminal compoundable offences, electricity dues, water bills, matrimonial, civil disputes, bank recovery, traffic challans and other public utility services were taken up for on the spot settlement between the relevant parties.

National Lok Adalat witnessed a massive response from the general public in which a large number of people had listed their cases for amicable settlement and resolution.

National Lok Adalats were also held at subordinate courts of the district where cases of different nature were taken up for on the spot settlement.

(Courtesy: Kashmir Life)