36,245 cases disposed of in Lok Adalat

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, December 6

On the directions of the National Legal Services Authority, New Delhi, a Lok Adalat was today organised in every court and quasi-judicial department of Jalandhar.

At Jalandhar Sessions Division, it was supervised by Justice Mahesh Grover, Administrative Judge, Jalandhar, Judge Punjab and Haryana High Court.

All types of civil, compoundable, criminal, revenue, traffic challan and claim cases were taken up at the adalat. These cases also included those matters which had not been filed in any court.

in all 36,245 out of 44,214 were disposed off and the claim amount disbursed was amounting to Rs 22.69 crore. A total number of 37 benches operated in Jalandhar Sessions Division. Apart from that the permanent Lok Adalat (Punjab Utility Services), the Labour and Industrial Tribunal, the District Consumer Forum, the District Transport Officer, SDMs and tehsildars also held the Lok Adalats, stated RS Attri, District and Sessions Judge-cum-Chairman, District Legal Services Authority, Jalandhar and Rana Kanwar Deep Kaur, Civil Judge (SD)-cum-Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, Jalandhar.

Divorcee accepted back by family of husband

In an interesting case heard during the National Lok Adalat by Justice Mahesh Grover, Administrative Judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court and R S Attri, District and Sessions Judge Jalandhar, a divorced lady was accepted back by her Jalandhar based ex-in-laws. Under this case, divorced husband also agreed to pay an amount of Rs 1.20 crore and a daughter from the second wife to her divorced husband.

A lady applicant files an application for setting aside a divorce judgement and decree date August 2011 which was passed in a petition filed by the parties under Section 13-B of the Hindu Marriage Act. The childless couple got divorce by way of mutual consent under the Hindu Marriage Act in 2011. After getting divorce the husband remarried and two female children were born from his second marriage.

The application for setting aside was field in 2012 and during the pendency of application, two children were born from his second marriage while there was none from the previous.

Under the settlement achieved, the applicant lady (divorced first wife) who decided not to remarry, had been accepted back by the family of her divorced husband and she had been given a sum of Rs 1.20 crore in order to purchase property in her name for her future maintenance. A portion of her previous matrimonial house was even agreed to be given to her so that she could live for the rest of her life in a company of her ex-in-laws.

Not only this, it was also agreed among them that her divorced husband and his new wife would give away their one of the baby daughters in adoption of her as she could not bear a child of her own.

Their dispute remained pending in the court for almost over two years before the matter could be finally settled in the National Lok Adalat.