Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 26: A Lok Adalat was held today in the District Court Complex, Janipur, in which 317 cases of different nature were settled.
As per a handout, the Lok Adalat was held under the chairmanship of Vinod Chatterji Koul, Chairman District Legal Services Authority, Principal District and Sessions Judge Jammu.
Around 483 cases of different nature were taken up, out of which 317 cases were decided and a total of Rs 18449244 was settled, it stated further.
The cases were heard by eight benches with first bench presided over by VC Koul, Prinicipal District and Sessions Judge Jammu and assisted by Jatinder Singh Jamwal, Presiding Officer MACT Jammu, second bench headed by ML Manhas, Special Judge Anticorruption CBI Cases, Jammu and assisted by Yahya Firdous Ahangar, Special Mobile Magistrate, Jammu, third bench by Bala Jyoti, Additional District Judge, Bank Cases, Jammu and assisted by Surinder Singh, City Judge Jammu, fourth bench led by Ashwani Kumar Sharma, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jammu and assisted by Meyank Gupta, 3rd Additional Munsiff, Jammu, fifth bench was headed by Kusum Lata Pandita, Sub-Judge, Jammu and assisted by Swati Gupta, Sub-Registrar Jammu, sixth bench was headed by Sudhir Khajuria, Special Electricity Mobile Magistrate, Jammu and assisted by Manjeet Rai, Special Mobile Magistrate P&T Jammu, the seventh bench was presided over by Manoj Parihar, Special Municipal Magistrate and eighth bench was headed by Amit Sharma, Special Mobile Magistrate Traffic, Jammu and Slahuddin Ahmed, Additional Mobile Magistrate, Traffic Jammu.
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