Srinagar May 13 (KINS):Under the insightful directions of Justice N. Kotiswar Singh, the Chief Justice of High Court of J&K and Ladakh, Patron in Chief JKLSA, Justice Tashi Rabstan, Executive Chairman, JKLSA and
Administrative Judge for District Srinagar, 2nd National Lok Adalat was
organized on Saturday in district court complex Moominabad.
The National Lok Adalat was inaugurated by Jawad Chairman District Legal Services Authority Srinagar, at A. D. R Centre, District Court Complex Srinagar.
Each Court had identified cases for the Lok Adalat beforehand and same were placed before eleven (11) different benches constituted by DLSA Srinagar for settlement in national Lok Adalat.
Nevertheless, Bench No. 1, comprised of Khalil Ahmad Choudhary (Pr. Distt. & Sessions Judge Budgam) and Farah Bashir (Munsiff JMIC Budgam) bench No. 2 comprised of Aijaz Ahmad Khan (Additional District and Sessions Judge Budgam) and Sheikh Gowher Hussain (Special Mobile Magistrate Budgam) Bench No.3 comprised of Noor Mohammad Mir
(Chief Judicial Magistrate Budgam) and Advocate Javid Ahmad Mir (Panel
Lawyer DLSA Budgam). Bench No. 4 comprised of Mir Wajahat (Sub Judge
Chadoora) and Uzma Amin (Munsiff JMIC Chadoora) Bench No. 5 Comprised of Massarat Jabeen (Munsiff JMIC Magam )In-charge (Additional Special Mobile Magistrate, Beerwah) and Adv. Mohd Yaqoob (Panel Lawyer).
Bench No. 6 comprised of Fakhar un Nissa (Munsiff JMIC Chararisharief) and N.A Mashooq (President, Bar Association Chararisharief) Bench No. 7 Comprised of Dr. Syed Farhana Asghar (District Social Welfare Officer Budgam) and Mushtaq Ahmad Parray (Tehsil Social Welfare Officer Budgam) Bench No. 8 Comprised of Zamir Ali (Assistant Labour Commissioner Budgam) and Farooq Ahmad (Labour Inspector Budgam) Bench No. 9 comprised of Imtiyaz Ahmad (Tehsildar Budgam) and Zubair Ahmad Wani (Naib Tehsildar
headquarter). Cases for settlement included cases of Civil, Criminal
Compoundable, Cheque bounce, Bank matters, MACT, Land Compensation,
Matrimonial, Electricity and Pre-litigation matters. Further, Pre-litigation matters were taken up, which included PDD matters, bank recovery matters, PHE cases, Social Welfare Schemes, Labour, Revenue, Matrimonial disputes, land disputes, BSNL cases, municipality cases and other Government schemes etc.
Nonetheless, a total number of 7332 matters were taken up for their
amicable settlement, out of which 6611 matters were settled. Besides, an amount of Rs. 19,67,44,792/= was realized in total in the settlement.