Kohima, August 4 (MTNews): The Nagaland State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA) under the aegis of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) will be conducting the 2nd Quarterly National Lok Adalat (People’s Courts) sitting in all the district headquarters on August 13. This is the 3rd Quarterly National Lok Adalat to be held for 2022-2023.
A total of 12 Lok Adalat Benches at Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench and all District Court premises will be set up by the High Court Legal Services Authority (HCLSC) and District Legal Services Authority (DLSAs), NSLSA informed in a press release.
Lok Adalat is one of the alternative dispute redressal mechanisms and a forum where cases pending in the court of law or at pre-litigation stage are settled or compromised speedily and amicably. National Lok Adalat is held on a quarterly basis and has benefited the citizens with the privilege of settling disputes at free of cost all across the State, it also said.
Further, it was informed persons having disputes/ cases (pre-litigation and pending) on civil, matrimonial, MACT and petty offence cases to come forward on the day or submit their disputes before the date at DLSA front offices, District Court building and NSLSA member Secretary Office, DC Office Compound or contact 0370-2290153 or email at nslsa.nagaland@gov.in.
NSLSA also said that the disposal data of each DLSA will be further uploaded on the web portal of the State Authority at nslsa.nagalandgov.in.
During the 2nd Quarterly National Lok Adalat held on May 14, 2022, a total of 211 cases/disputes were disposed off out of the total 642 disputes/matters/cases listed for compromise settlement which included cases in pending stage as well as in pre-litigation stage mostly in the category of bank recovery, criminal compoundable cases, Motor Accident Cases Tribunal (MACT) and other cases viz. public utility. Settlement amount involved in the cases amounted to a total of Rs. 3,14,95,820/- (three crore fourteen lakh ninety five thousand eight hundred twenty) only.