Dimapur, March 9 (MExN): The National Lok Adalat was held in seven district headquarters of Nagaland state on March 9. Organised by the District Legal Services Authorities, seven sitting bench were constituted in the respective District Headquarters.
A total of 178 disputes were disposed of in the State Lok Adalat out of the total 973 disputes, matters and cases listed for compromise settlement which includes cases in pending stage as well as in pre-litigation stage mostly in the category of bank Recovery, Motor Accident Cases Tribunal (MACT) and other cases viz. public utility i.e. Telephone Bills and Matrimonial disputes, stated a press release issued by PRA, NSLSA.
Settlement amount involved in some of the cases amounts to a total of Rs 34,15,81,243 (Four crore fifteen lakh eighty on thousand two hundred forty three). “This Settlement Amount is the amount mutually agreed for payment between the litigants (or) parties who are involved in a dispute where the parties on arriving at a consensus, the willing amount to settle the disputes for the damaged caused or a negotiated amount for payment on a claim by a party,” the release stated. Settlement amount also includes the fine money, Bank recovery money, money suits, compensation money, it added.
The Lok Adalat was held in Dimapur, Kohima, Phek, Peren, Zunheboto, Mokokchung and Wokha at District Court Premises headed by Chairperson and Secretary of the DLSAs. An MACT case was taken up through video conferencing for Tuensang DLSA.
The core aim of the people’s Court arrangement was to settle disputes or cases at pre-litigation stage i.e. is even before the case is filed in the court and in addition some pending cases in the court of law which are admissible under the Lok Adalat regulation to be settled through compromised and amicable means.
