Raipur, 10 July 2021. As per the directions of National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), New Delhi, today the Hybrid National Lok Adalat was organized in all the courts from Taluka level to High Court level in the state of Chhattisgarh and the cases worthy of settlement were resolved by mutual conciliation agreement of the parties. In the National Lok Adalat, 10 thousand cases have been resolved, in which about one thousand cases are related to section 188 related to violation during the Corona period, which have been withdrawn on the initiative of the government. Lok Adalat cases were resolved in the physical or virtual presence of the parties.
According to the directions of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, Acting Chief Justice, and Executive Chairman, Chhattisgarh State Legal Services Authority, Bilaspur, each district was given the power of special sitting of the magistrate for the said Lok Adalat, in small cases on the basis of the approval of the parties. but were abolished. Apart from this, special cases like Section 321 PR, 258 PR and Petty Offenses and cases registered under Disaster Management Act 2005 during the Corona period were also resolved. Such cases which were not yet presented in the court were also disposed of as pre-litigation cases on the basis of mutual agreement of the parties. Similarly, a total of 123 cases have been resolved by the Chhattisgarh High Court in the said National Lok Adalat through 04 division benches.
Resolving cases by reaching the parties through the country’s first mobile Lok Adalat van
According to the instructions of Shri Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, Acting Chief Justice and Executive Chairman, State Legal Services Authority, 07 cases pending in the District Court by D.V.S.P. The cases were resolved through mutual conciliation agreement after reaching the houses of the parties. In these cases, 2 cases of persons with disabilities who belonged to the District Court, Mahasamund district, 01 person was admitted in the district hospital, 02 persons were unable to appear in the court due to illness and 02 persons were not present in the court due to old age. Those whose cases were being resolved, the mobile Lok Adalat van reached them and the process of disposal of the cases was completed.
Shri Harendra Nag, Behavioral Judge Class-1, Durg’s court in the case “State V. Akash Yadav etc.” Section 323, 294, 506 I.P.No. was pending since 2018. The said case was placed before the Division Bench on 10/07/2021 today for resignation. There were three applicants in the said case, out of which two applicants had appeared in the court, but one applicant named Dayanand was hospitalized due to illness, without whose consent it was not possible to resign. On receiving the above information, the Secretary of the District Legal Services Authority was contacted by him through the mobile number of the party, on which the applicant told that he is unable to move yet, he cannot come to the court to give his consent. . In such a situation, the above information was provided by the Secretary, District Legal Services Authority to Hon’ble Shri Rajesh Srivastava, Chairman, District Legal Services Authority, Durg, on which the Chairman, On being directed by the District Legal Services Authority, PLV. Shri Duleshwar Matiyara was sent through mobile van to mark the consent for the resignation of the said applicant, in which the applicant agreed to finish the said case through resignation, as a result of which this case pending since the year 2018. Gone.
Ms. Ruchi Mishra, Behavioral Judge Class-2, Case pending in Durg’s court no. 10801/19 “Chhattisgarh Co-operative Society V. Rayesh Kant Firgi” was unable to come to the court due to ill health of the applicant Vasudev, then Secretary, District Legal Services Authority by Hon’ble Shri Rajesh Srivastava, Chairman, District Legal Services Authority, The said information was provided to Durg, on which, on being directed by the Chairman, District Legal Services Authority, PLV. The applicant was reached through mobile van by Shri Vasudev Yadav and consent was obtained for his resignation. In another case pending in the same court, the party was unable to come to the court due to being old (age 65 years), who was also contacted through mobile van and consent was obtained in his resignation.
Shri Anand Kumar Baghel, Ex. Case 463/2019 “Mrs. Bhavna Mahule v. Binanath Shah”, pending in the court of District and Sessions Judge, the petitioner was unable to come to the court due to injury, then by the Secretary, District Legal Services Authority. The above information was provided to Hon’ble Shri Rajesh Srivastava, Chairman, District Legal Services Authority, Durg, on which, on being directed by the Chairman, District Legal Services Authority, PLV. The petitioner was contacted by Shri Dnyaneshwar and reached to him through mobile van and after obtaining consent for his resignation, a compensation amount of Rs. 9 lakh 50 thousand was sanctioned.
Order for refund of justice fee of 19 lakh 20 thousand
In the court of District Judge Shri Rajesh Srivastava, a case was presented on 20-7-2020 for a temporary injunction of Rs.6 crore 20 lakh for specific performance of the pending contract, in which justice fee of 19 lakh 20 thousand was pasted. In the case, the defendants agreed to provide Rs. 2 crore 18 lakh, as a result of which the order for refund of Rs. 19 lakh 20 thousand deposited as justice fee was passed by the court.
Justice itself went to the door of the parties
Today Ali Asghar Aziz, a 78-year-old elderly party in a road accident case, had trouble coming to court, had an operation on his knees, due to which he was unable to move and being old, he could not even use a mobile could do. In view of their problem, the authority sent two para volunteers to them and those paralegal volunteers produced Ali Asghar, the disabled party through video conferencing, in the division bench of Raipur Chief Judicial Magistrate Shri Bhupendra Kumar Wasnikar. Ali Asghar was explained by the court through video conferencing and there was a discussion regarding the resignation. In the crime number 372/2020 of police station Kotwali, Raipur, the case was terminated after resigning.
Similarly, in another case of check bounce, party Rajwant Singh met with an accident and broke his ribs. Presently he is unable to walk. Rajwant Singh also wanted to finish the case by resigning in his case but due to his health reasons he was unable to come to the court. Rajwant Singh wanted to present the check before the court against the loan taken to the opposite party. When the authority came to know about this, the authority sent the para volunteers to their homes along with the vehicle and brought them to the court as per their wish and in the court of Dr. Sumit Soni, they provided the check and through the resignation, the matter was also ended. .
40 year old case
In the year 1980, by Shibodhi Chaudhary, father of Ramdular Choudhary, regarding land related dispute, it was presented before the Hon’ble Court of Practice against Shivmangal Singh. The matter was that Shibodhi Chaudhary had purchased the land in the year 1975 and the same land was acquired by Shivmangal Singh after it was transferred and as a result of which the pragmatism of land ownership and possession operated between them. During the parallax of the said behaviorism, the two parties Shibodhi Chaudhary and Shivmangal Singh also died, after that their successors conducted the case by becoming parties in the case. Meanwhile, the matter remained pending before the Hon’ble High Court as well. The said case continued for 35 years before the Hon’ble Behavioral Court and in the year 2015, the case was resolved in favor of the successors of Late Shibodhi Choudhary, against which the Senior Court Hon’ble Fifth Additional District Judge Ambikapur by the successors of Late Shivmangal Singh. Appeal was presented before. For disposal of the said appeal, a settlement was negotiated between the parties. In which the respective court has given an explanation to both the parties. Ultimately the matter was resolved after 6 years through the National Lok Adalat by both the parties on the basis of understanding and mutual negotiations by the presiding officer of the concerned court, Shri Om Prakash Jaiswal Sahib. The said settlement case being 40 years old, was done with the persuasion and cooperation of the presiding officer of the concerned court, in which the advocates of both the parties, Shri Vikas Srivastava and Shri.
