National Lok Adalat is celebrated in Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa, Andaman & Nicobar, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana on the 25-26 June under the auspices of Judge UU Lalit.
NALSA and other legal services organizations operate Lok Adalats. Lok Adalat is one of the alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, it is a forum where disputes/cases pending in court or at the pre-litigation stage are resolved/compromised amicably benevolent.
Lok Adalats was granted legal status under the Legal Services Authorities Act 1987. As per the said law, the judgment (decision) rendered by Lok Adalats shall be deemed to be a decree of a civil court and shall be final and binding upon all parties and no appeal against such judgment shall be filed in any court.
If the parties are not satisfied with the Lok Adalat allocation despite the inability to appeal against such allocation, they are free to sue by applying to the competent court by filing under Compulsory procedures and exercising their right to initiate a lawsuit.
The 2nd National Lok Adalat for 2022 was recently held under the auspices of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) in nine states across the country.
The show takes place in Maharashtra, Kerala, Goa, Andaman & Nicobar, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana on June 25-26 under the auspices of High Court Judge UU Lalit.
A total of 20,96,854 cases, including 14,26,751 pending cases and 6,70,103 pre-litigation cases have been resolved, according to a press release issued by NALSA.
The total monetary value of the resolved cases is ₹ 3534.59 crores.
The cumulative number of cases settled in Lok Adalats for the second quarter of the current calendar year is 95,75,743, of which Rs 28,71,919 are pending and 67,03,824 are pre-litigation cases. The total monetary value paid so far is ₹9413.62 crores, the press release added.
NALSA organizes the National Lok Adalats quarterly to provide easy, economical, and informal access to justice for litigants, especially those from the poorest sections of society.
Haryana State Legal Services held its second National Lok Adalat in 22 districts and 33 subdivisions of Haryana.
No less than 1,10,324 cases have been resolved.
Lok Adalat is organized under the leadership of Justice Augustine George Masih, Judge of the High Courts of Punjab and Haryana and Executive Chairman of the Haryana State Legal Services Authority across the country. ‘Haryana.
Cases that have been decided include civil, criminal, and marriage cases, as well as bank collection, including cases of Permanent Lok Adalats (utility service) working at all Centers Alternative dispute resolution on 1 90,613.
According to a published statement, 58% of all cases have been resolved. Tax courts and executive courts have also conducted National Lok Adalat, deciding 25,483 out of 28,380 tax cases. Pre-Lok Adalat sessions are also held in all districts of Haryana.
More than 34,000 cases have been treated at Pre-Lok Adalats and more than 17,000 cases have been treated. As of Saturday, 54,364 cases have been processed and 30,774 cases have been resolved at the pre-litigation stage and a total of Rs 17.47 crore has been resolved.
About 1,36,249 cases are pending, of which 79,550 cases have been decided, for a total of Rs 229 pending.
1,644 cases resolved in Chandigarh
A total of 1,644 cases involving Rs 13.28 crore were decided by fifteen benches of court officers on duty at National Lok Adalat at the Chandigarh District Court complex on Saturday.
According to a statement released by the County Legal Services Agency (DLSA), Criminal Complaint Cases, Bank Debt Collection Cases, Motor Vehicle Accident Compensation Cases (MACT), Marriage Disputes , Labor disputes, arbitration cases, cases under Article 138 of the NI Act as well as other civil and municipal cases as well as traffic issues were discussed and resolved after a consent of the parties concerned.
Lok Adalats handles ongoing civil cases, complex criminal cases and marriage except divorce cases. They are seen as alternative dispute resolution mechanisms at a time when courts are subject to high expectations.
The aim is to ease the burden on conventional courts by targeting existing cases as well as ongoing cases.
In a diverse criminal case that closed at Lok Adalat in Karnataka recently, a heartbreaking scene occurred as the eighty-year-old litigants were reunited after a separation of nearly 50 years. Similarly, in Uttar Pradesh, after a round of conciliation, negotiation and conciliation on property disputes, a 43-year-old case was settled out of court.
