SAMBA: As per the directions of Executive Chairman J&K Legal Services Authority, 1st National Lok Adalat for the year, 2025 was held today organised here at District Court Complex Samba. The National Lok Adalat was inaugurated by R. N. Wattal, Pr. District & Sessions Judge (also Chairman District Legal Services Authority).
Three benches were constituted for expeditious disposal of Cases (Pre and Post Litigation); Bench No.1 was comprising of R. N. Wattal, Pr. District & Sessions Judge (also Chairman District Legal Services Authority), Arvind Sharma, Addl District & Sessions Judge and S.K. Khanmotra, Advocate; Bench No.2 comprised Umesh Sharma, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samba, Himani Parihar, Munsiff (JMIC) and Renu Bala, Advocate; while Bench No. 3 consisted of Rashi Verma, Addl. Spl. Mobile Magistrate, Samba and Ganesh Sharma, Advocate.
The matters placed before the Benches included Civil, Criminal Compoundable, Cheque Bounce, Bank Recovery matters, MACT, Matrimonial, Pre-litigation matters, D.V. Act, Negotiable Instrument Act, 125 Cr.Pc., and Petty Offence(s) including traffic challans. Beside this, two more Benches were constituted for Revenue Cases, Cases under Food Safety and Standard Act, 2006, petty loan cases Public Utility Services related Cases, Compensation Cases pending in the Court of Assistant Labour Commissioner, Samba. A total number of 247 cases were taken up for their amicable settlement out of which 209 cases were settled and an amount of Rs 2,12,62,123 was realized as settlement amount.
