Punjab and Haryana High Court Judge Justice Rajan Gupta reviews working of a Bench during National Lok Adalat at Patiala District Courts on Saturday
- April 11, 2021
- Updated: 12:26 am
DW BUREAU / Mohali
During National Lok Adalat held at District Courts a long pending litigation of a couple came to its logical end when Administrative Judge of the Patiala Sessions Divisions, Justice Rajan Gupta, Judge Punjab and Haryana High Court, while visiting the bench being presided by Harish Anand, Additional District and Sessions Judge, showed keen interest to reunite the couple by effecting amicable settlement between the duo.
Expressing his satisfaction over the disposal of the case of restitution of conjugal rights titled as Harinder Singh Vs. Narpinder Kaur, Justice Rajan Gupta said that it was a matter of immense pleasure that the concept of Lok Adalat has reunite the couple again and both expressed consent to reside together for the secure future of their minor daughter by shunning all the litigations pending with
the court.
Citing one more example of fruitful results of National Lok Adalat, Justice Rajan Gupta said that the case pertaining to the land acquisition case that was presented before the bench of Rajvinder Singh, Additional District Judge, relating to the acquisition of land belonging to Sanjivani Educational and Charitable Trust Chandigarh, has also been got compromised in favour of the trust and long run litigation has come to its logical end.
Due to the dispute between the parties, one civil case, one case under Section 138 NIA were pending and further an FIR bearing No. 319 dated 29.12.2021 U/S 120-B/420 IPC, City Rajpura was also registered against Ramandeep Singh one of the Director of Trust and Manmohan Sharma, Chairman of the Trust.
District and Sessions Judge Rajinder Aggarwal while giving information of the cases disposed in today's National Lok Adalat, said that as many as 912 cases disposed of by the 12 benches set up in the district at Patiala, Nabha, Rajpura and Samana. All types of cases except non-compoundable criminal cases were considered in these Lok Adalats, he added.
Secretary, District Legal Services Authority Parminder Kaur, CJM said that a total of 12 judicial benches (Patiala 9, Samana 1, Rajpura 1 and Nabha 1) were constituted in Patiala Sessions Division. During this National Lok Adalat, cases under different categories were taken up for settlement through amicable settlement and 912 cases were settled involving amounts of Rs 7,90,25,47, 505.
During this National Lok Adalat, Justice Rajan Gupta, Judge, Punjab and High Court, Chandigarh along with Rajinder Aggarwal, District and Sessions Judge, Monika Sharma, Civil Judge(SD), Amit Malhan, CJM and Parminder Kaur, CJM/Secretary,DLSA Patiala visited the Lok Adalat benches of Patiala court and motivated the parties to resolve their dispute amicably and peaceably by taking recourse to the National Lok Adalat.
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