 Early Times Report
SAMBA, Sept 9: Under the insightful directions of Justice Tashi Rabstan, Executive Chairman, J&K Legal Services Authority and also under the radiant guidance of Yesh Paul Kotwal, Chairman, District Legal Services Authority, Samba (also Pr. District & Sessions Judge, Samba), 3rd National LokAdalat of the calendar year 2023 was held today at ADR, Centre, District Court Complex Samba.
The Lok Adalat was inaugurated by Yesh Paul Kotwal, Chairman, District Legal Services Authority, Samba (also Pr. District & Sessions Judge, Samba)
Six Benches for settling the referred cases(both Pre and Post Litigation) were constituted at District Court Complex Samba.
Bench No.1 consisted of Yesh Paul Kotwal, Chairman, District Legal Services Authority, Samba (also Pr. District & Sessions Judge, Samba) and Rekha Kapoor Nischal, Secretary, District Legal Services Authority Samba; Bench No.2 consisted of Adnan Sayeed, Additional District & Sessions Judge, Samba and Himani Parihar, Munsiff, Samba; Bench No. 3 was comprised of Preet Simran Kour, Chief Judicial Magistrate Samba and Urvashi Raina, Addl. Munsiff, Samba, while Bench No. 4 included Ananta Raina, Addl. Spl. Mobile Magistrate, Samba and Shammi Kumar, ARTO Samba.
The matters placed before the Benches included Civil, Criminal Compoundable, Cheque Bounce, Bank Recovery matters, MACT, Matrimonial, Pre-litigation matters, D.V. Act, Negotiable Instrument Act, 125 Cr.Pc., and Petty Offence(s) including traffic challans. Beside this two more Benches were constituted for settling Revenue Cases, Cases under Food Safety and Standard Act, 2006, all cases of petty loans pending in all revenue Courts including the Courts of Tehsildar of District Samba, all Petty Public Utility Services related Cases, all Compensation Cases pending in the Courts of Assistant Labour Commissioner Samba.
Besides, Bench No 5 consisted Suresh Chander Sharma, Additional Deputy Commissioner Samba and Mohit Gupta, Tehsildar Samba; Bench no. 6 included Amil Khateeb, Assistant Labour Commissioner Samba and Pawan Bhatti, Labour Officer, Samba.
Rekha Kapoor Nischal, Secretary District Legal Services Authority Samba coordinated the National LokAdalat organized at ADR Centre, District Court Complex Samba.
A total number of 2305 cases were taken up for their amicable settlement out of which 2070 cases were settled and an amount of Rs. 21993807 was realized as settlement amount. |
