New Delhi: The Jammu and Kashmir State Legal Service Authority organized its first E-Lok Adalat through different digital platform modes. A total of 4,273 cases were disposed of by 110 benches across the UT’s of J&K and Ladakh on August 22.
The press release by the J&KSLSA stated that the E-Lok Adalat was organized in all districts of the Union Territory of J&K and Ladakh to achieve the goal of Access to Justice for all and to help the poor litigants tide over their financial problems and untold mental stress.
The E-Lok Adalat/ Video Conferencing Lok Adalat was organized under the guidance of its Patron-in-Chief, Chief Justice Gita Mittal, J&K High Court, and under the instruction of Justice Rajesh Bindal J&K High Court.
A total number of 5,757 cases were taken up by 110 Benches across the UT’s of J&K and Ladakh and an amount of Rs 11,49,45,449 was awarded as compensation/ settlement amount in civil, criminal, labor disputes, electricity water bill cases, land acquisition, family matters, cheque dishonour, and bank recovery cases.
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The press release further stated that the disposed of cases include a number of old cases including one 40 years old land dispute in Bhaderwah which ended in a compromise between the parties on the intervention of the bench.
Read the press release here;
– India Legal Bureau