JALANDHAR
As per the schedule of the National Legal Services Authority, New Delhi, and under the guidance of. Justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia, Judge, Punjab and Haryana High Court and Executive Chairman, Punjab State Legal Services Authority and Sh. Nirbhow Singh Gill District and Sessions Judge-cum -chairman DLSA Jalandhar, National Lok Adalat was organized on March 9in Jalandhar.
In this Lok Adalat, in which total of 40,500 pre-litigation and pending Criminal Compoundable Offences, NI Act cases under Section-138, Bank Recovery Cases, MACT Cases, Matrimonial Disputes, Labour disputes, Land Acquisition cases, Electricity and Water Bills (Excluding non-compoundable theft cases), Service matters relating to pay and allowances and Retiral benefits, Revenue Cases and other Civil Cases were taken up.
In this National Lok Adalat, 20 benches were constituted at the District headquarters.
Besides this, 4 benches at Sub-Division, Phillaur and Nakodar were also constituted and at Phillaur .
For the successful organization of this National Lok Adalat, Sh. Nirbhow Singh Gill, Ld. District and Sessions Judge had called various meetings of judicial officers, Presidents, and Secretaries of the Bar Associations Jalandhar, Nakodar, and Phillaur, and officials of other Departments to sensitize them about the National Lok Adalat. They were also motivated and instructed to identify the maximum number of cases that could be taken up in the National Lok Adalat and to make maximum efforts for disposal of the same in the Pre-Lok Adalats and National Lok Adalat.
Baljinder Singh Mann, Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, Jalandhar informed that in this National Lok Adalat, 40,500 cases were taken up out of which 38497 cases were disposed of by compromise and awards of an amount of Rs.40,45,60,049/- were passed by the different Lok Adalat benches.