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Published: 11 May 2024

SRINAGAR: In pursuance to the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) calendar, and under the directions of Jammu and Kashmir Legal Services Authority, the 2nd National Lok Adalat was on Saturday held across all the districts of Kashmir by the respective District Legal Services Authorities (DLSAs) for amicable settlement of cases of different nature.

The Lok Adalat was held under the insightful directions of Justice N. Kotiswar Singh, Chief Justice of the High Court of J&K and Ladakh (Patron in Chief), J&K Legal Services Authority, Justice Tashi Rabstan, 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.

At Srinagar, the 2nd National Lok Adalat was organized by District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Srinagar at District Court Complex Mominabad Srinagar, under the direction and supervision of Jawad Ahmed, Chairman of the DLSA (Pr. District & Sessions Judge) Srinagar.

To facilitate the amicable settlement of cases, 12 benches were constituted for the said 2nd National Lok Adalat, Overall  62176 cases were taken up for settlement out of which  60374 cases were amicably settled & Rs.4,41,33,766 was awarded as settlement amount.

In Motor Accident related cases, Bench No 1 headed by Jeema Bashir (Presiding Officer, MACT Court) Srinagar, and Khurshid-Ul-Islam (Ist Additional District & Sessions Judge), Srinagar had taken up 47 cases for settlement out of which  20 cases were amicably settled and Rs.1,81,56,343 was awarded as settlement amount and  Bench No. 4 headed by Arvind Sharma (Addl District & Sessions Judge, Bank Cases) Srinagar and Arti Mohan (Presiding Officer POCSO Court) Srinagar, had taken 27 cases for settlement out of which 23 cases were amicably settled and Rs. 68,49,125 was awarded as settlement amount.

The Chairman DLSA Srinagar distributed compensation cheques to the tune of Rs. 8,50,000 among the  survivors of violence sanctioned by J&K Legal Services Authority.

At Anantnag, the 2nd National Lok Adalat was held today in District Court Complex Anantnag and other Taluka Courts of District Anantnag under the Chairmanship of Jaffar Hussain Beigh, Chairman, DLSA (Principal District & Sessions Judge), Anantnag and under the Supervision of Tabassum Qadir Parray, Secretary DLSA, Anantnag. 

For amicable settlement of the cases, 02 benches were constituted at DLSA Anantnag, 01 Bench at TLSC Bijbehara, 01 Bench at TLSC Duru, 01 Bench at TLSC Vailoo, 01 Bench at TLSC Shangus and 01 Bench at TLSC Ashmuqam A.

The constituted 07 bences took up a total of 1347 cases in which 919 cases were amicably settled. An amount of Rs. 98,82,093 was realized in different cases amicably settled. 

At Budgam, the 2nd National Lok Adalat was organized in District Court Complex Budgam and Taluka Courts of District Budgam.

The 2nd National Lok Adalat was inaugurated by Khalil Ahmad Choudhary, Principal District & Sessions Judge (Chairman District Legal Services Authority) Budgam, at District Court Complex Budgam.

Each Court had identified cases for Lok Adalat before hand and same were placed before 07 different benches constituted by DLSA Budgam for their settlement in National Lok Adalat.

Nonetheless, a total number of 548 matters were taken up for their amicable settlement, out of which 322 matters were settled. Besides, an amount of Rs. 5,75,70,294 was realized in total in the settlement. Besides, an amount of Rs 2.00 Lac was provided as victim compensation.

At Ganderbal, the Lok-Adalat was held under the supervision and chairmanship of Ritesh Kumar Dubey, Chairman DLSA (Pr. District & Sessions Judge) Ganderbal, and under the guidance of Nusrat Ali Hakak, Secretary DLSA Ganderbal.

For the amicable settlement of cases, 03 benches were constituted that took up 883 cases for settlement, out of which 803 number of cases were amicably settled/compromised on spot and Rs. 53,49,686 was awarded as settlement amount in Bank recovery matters, 138 NI Act Cases, Civil Cases and other matters.

At Shopian, the 2nd National Lok Adalat was held here today in the court premises of District Court Complex Shopian under the Chairpersonship of Rafia Hassan, I/C Chairman District Legal Services Authority (Principal District & Session Judge) Shopian.

For the said National Lok Adalat, 03 Benches were constituted by the DLSA that took up 192 cases, out of which 89 cases were settled amicably with a settlement amount Rs.67,63,950.

In the said National Lok Adalat, besides Advocates, litigants and other prominent citizens also participated.

At Kulgam, the 2nd National Lok Adalat was held under the chairmanship of Pervaiz Iqbal (Incharge PDJ Kulgam/Chairman DLSA Kulgam).

The Lok Adalat was inaugurated by Chairman DLSA in presence of Sub Judge/Secretary DLSA Kulgam, Chief Judicial Magistrate Kulgam and Additional Mobile Magistrate Kulgam and Bar members of Kulgam.

On the occasion, 06 benches were constituted, four at headquarters and one each at D.H.Pora and Qazigund.

In the said Lok Adalat a total number of 743 cases were taken up, out of which 304 cases were amicably settled. An amount of Rs.1,59,23,400 was awarded in different cases including 52.00 lakhs in one MACT Case titled Farida Gul v/s Wassim Dhobi.

At Kupwara, the 2nd National Lok Adalat was today held across District Kupwara under the supervision of Shazia Tabasum, Chairperson, DLSA, (Pr. District & Session Judge) Kupwara, and guidance of Manzoor Ahmad Khan Secretary, DLSA Kupwara.

A total of 06 Benches were constituted for the said Lok Adalat that took up 746 cases, of which 617 numbers of cases were disposed-off as settled on spot by intervention of the benches and by participation of the lawyers and litigants.

A total sum of Rs. 21,26,500 was awarded to the aggrieved parties by settlement during the said National Lok Adalat.

At Bandipora, the DLSA Bandipora today organised the 2nd  National Lok Adalat under the supervision of Chairman DLSA, (Pr. District & Session Judge) Bandipora, Amit Sharma and guidance of Nusrat Ali Hakak Secretary DLSA, Bandipora.

A total of 03 Benches were constituted for the said Lok Adalat that took up 199 cases, out of which 104 cases were settled as disposed-off. A total sum of 5,36,830 was awarded to the aggrieved parties by settlement during the said Lok Adalat.