Punjab Newsline, Chandigarh, December 14 -
Acting under the aegis of National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) and the vision of Executive Chairperson, NALSA Sh. Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, Judge, Supreme Court of India, the Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HALSA) organized the 4thNational Lok Adalat on saturday under the overall leadership of its Patron-in-Chief, HALSASh. Sheel Nagu, Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court and the guidance and concerted efforts of its Executive Chairman Arun Palli, Judge, Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The National Lok Adalat was organized in all the 22 districts and 34 sub-divisions of Haryana through the District Legal Services Authorities (DLSAs) by way of constituting 165 benches for both pre-litigation and pending court cases. A wide array of cases from various categories including civil, matrimonial, motor accident claims, bank recovery, cheque bounce, traffic challans, compoundable criminal cases etc. including the cases of Permanent Lok Adalats (Public Utility Services) working in the ADR Centres numbering more than 4,25,000 cases were referred to the Lok Adalat benches for settlement by way of mutual consent.