GANDERBAL, MARCH 10: As per the directions of National Legal Services Authority and J&K Legal Services Authority, National Lok Adalat was organized on Saturday in District Ganderbal under the Chairmanship of Ritesh Kumar Dubey and under the guidance of Secretary District Legal Services Authority Ganderbal, Nusrat Ali Hakak.
To dispose of Pre-Litigation matters and Pending court cases by compromise/amicable settlement, total 04 benches were constituted for the Lok Adalat comprising of Presiding Officers and Other Members.
The 1st bench was comprised of Fayaz Ahmad Qureshi, CJM Ganderbal, & Advocate Sofi Abdul Samad, 2nd bench by Mainaaz Qadir, Additional Special Mobile Magistrate, Ganderbal and Advocate Kounsar Syed Masoodi; 3rd bench by Mohd. Waseem Mirza, Munsiff/JMIC Ganderbal and Advocate Younis Saleem Wani, and 4th Bench by Easar Ul Nabi, Munsiff/JMIC Kangan and Advocate Suheel Ahmad Mir.
Overall, 1,160 Pre-Litigation matters and Pending court cases were taken up for settlement in the Pre Lok-Adalats and National Lok-Adalat out of which 1,073 cases were amicably settled/Compromised on spot and an amount of Rs 74,23,407 was awarded as settlement amount in Bank Recovery Cases, Electricity matters, MACT cases, 138 NI Act cases and other cases.
