Over 2,500 cases settled at Lok Adalat

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, December 9

A National Lok Adalat today was conducted on the court premises and 22 benches were constituted, including two benches of Phul and Talwandi Sabo subdivisions.

On this occasion, Justice Ritu Bahri, Judge, Punjab and Haryana High Court, as well as the inspecting Judge, Bathinda Sessions Division, also visited the Court Complex. She was accompanied by Paramjeet Singh, District and Sessions Judge, Diprava Likra, Deputy Commissioner, Bathinda, and Naveen Singla, SSP, Bathinda, and Dr Mandeep Mittal, CJM/Secretary of the DLSA.

In all, 5,191 cases were taken up for disposal, out of which 2,537 were disposed of and award of Rs 13,42,06,614 was passed.

Cases related to Criminal Compoundable offences, NI Act cases under Section 138 Bank Recovery cases, MACT Cases, Matrimonial cases, Labour Disputes cases, Land Acquisition cases, Electricity and Water Bills (excluding theft cases), service matters relating to pay and allowances and retiral benefits, revenue cases, other civil cases-(rent, easementary rights, injunction suits, specific performance suits), etc were discussed in the Lok Adalat.

Dr Mandeep Mittal informed that the litigants, who could not take benefit of this Lok Adalat, could request for taking up their cases in the monthly Lok Adalat, which is held on the last working Saturday of every month. Besides, Dr Mandeep Mittal appealed to the general public that they should take maximum benefit of the Lok Adalat because it saved time, money and expenses of both the parties. Moreover, no appeal can be filed against the order passed by the Lok Adalat.

Before this, Justice Ritu Bahri visited the Central Jail, Bathinda, and heard the grievances of convicts and undertrials. She also visited the hospital as well as community kitchen being run by the jail inmates inside the jail premises.

Justice Bahri visited Joga Nand village, which was adopted as a pilot project. The visit to this village was aimed at taking stock how the welfare schemes being run by the administration as well as government, particularly through the District Legal Services Authoirty, Bathinda, and visited the court premises in the subdivisions of Phul and Talwandi Sabo.

In Bathinda, Justice Bahri visited the Alternative Dispute Redressal Centre and saw the proceedings of the Family Welfare Committee. She addressed the para legal volunteers and asked them to work for the uplift of weaker sections of society, particularly women and children. She discussed the problem of female foeticide.

The District Administration held a camp at Joga Nand village where the schemes of the government relating to pension and labour cards were implemented and a medical camp was also organised.