680 cases disposed of in Lok Adalats

Our Correspondent

Phagwara, December 9

As many as 680 cases were disposed of by the National Lok Adalat held at Kapurthala, Phagwara and Sultanpur Lodhi on Saturday. Over 2,175 cases were taken up by 14 benches, including subdivisions, constituted by the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA).

Compensation worth Rs 7 crore 55 lakh were settled in the Lok Adalats. Cases related to criminal compoundable offences, bank recovery, motor accidental claims, matrimonial and labour disputes, land acquisition cases, electricity and water bills (excluding theft cases), service matters related to pay, allowances and retrial benefits, revenue and civil cases, among others, were taken up.

In Phagwara, 211 out of a total of 666 cases were disposed of and compensation worth Rs 2,79,83,282 were settled in the Phagwara court.

BJP assails Cong for trying to save Vadra

Our Correspondent

Phagwara, December 9

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today launched a frontal attack on the Congress for what it said was trying to save Robert Vadra, the son-in-law of party president Sonia Gandhi.

Tarun Chugh, national secretary of the BJP, alleged that Vadra who was facing allegations of taking commission in the purchase of arms was being defended by the Congress party after the raids by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

“The Congress has always defended those who took commission in defence deals and this time also the party is trying to save Robert Vadra,” Chugh said.

According to the BJP leader, the ED raid on three associates of Robert Vadra came days after the CBI successfully got the middleman in the Augusta Westland deal, Christian James Michel, extradited.

The BJP leader alleged that Robert Vadra had abused his position as the son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi and launched fake companies to siphon off public money.

Justifying the action against Vadra, Chugh said the BJP-led NDA government was bringing the truth to fore about Vadra’s ‘corrupt’ practices. He claimed that everything was being done in a legal way but the Congress was trying to exert political pressure to hinder the process of law.

Chugh said it was surprising that Sonia, Rahul and other senior Congress leaders, instead of feeling embarrassed, were trying to question the investigating agencies that were simply doing their duty.

“Has the son-in-law of the first family of Congress got some extra-constitutional powers or privileges to loot the public exchequer which actually belongs to the common and the poorest of the poor,” he asked.

Chugh alleged that the first family of the Congress had turned into a ‘garbage dump of the corrupt’.