Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 25: A Lok Adalat was today held at District Court Complex Janipur under the chairmanship of Vinod Chatterji Koul, Chairman, District Legal Services Authority (Pr. District & Sessions Judge) Jammu.
A total 323 cases were taken up in the Lok Adalat, 250 were disposed of and an amount of Rs 84893607 was settled.
To settle the cases, six numbers of benches were constituted.
Bench number one comprising V.C. Koul, Pr. District & Sessions Judge, Jammu, Nighat Sultana, Addl. District Judge, Bank Cases Jammu and Haq Nawaz Zargar, 3rd Addl. District & Sessions Judge TADA POTA, dealt with Bank Cases, Civil Cases and Criminal Revision.
Bench 2, comprising Mohan Lal Manhas, Special Judge, Anti Corruption, CBI Cases Jammu and Tasleem Arief, Addl.. Sessions Judge, Anti-Corruption Jammu, Jatinder Singh Jamwal, presiding Officer MACT dealt with MACT Cases, while Bench 3 comprising of Surinder Singh, City Judge, Jammu, Pawan Sharma, Sub-Judge, Jammu and Arti Devi, Munsiff, JMIC Jammu dealt with cases related to Criminal Compoundable offences, U/s 138 N.I Act, Petty Criminal Offences.
Similarly, Bench 4, comprising Yahya Firdous Ahangar, Special Railway Magistrate Jammu, Manjeet Rai, Special Mobile Magistrate P&T, Jammu and Wangial Tsering, Forest Magistrate, Jammu dealt with Electricity Water, Passenger Tax, and Civil cases of all nature.
The Bench 5 comprising Naushad Ahmed Khan, Secretary DLSA Jammu and Dinesh Gupta, Special Mobile Magistrate, dealt with Traffic Cases and the Bench 6, comprising Manoj Parihar, Spl. Municipal Magistrate, Jammu and Slahuddin Ahmed, Addl. Mobile Magistrate Jammu dealt with Municipal & Petty Compoundable cases.
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