30 cases settled in Lok Adalat

Excelsior CorrespondentJAMMU, Dec 27: A Lok Adalat was held today in the District Court Complex Janipur under the chairmanship of Chairman, District Legal Services Authority (Pr. District & Sessions Judge), Vinod Chatterjee Koul in which 3 benches were constituted to settle the cases.Bench Number 1 was comprised of Additional District Judge (Bank Cases) Jammu, Bala Jyoti and City Judge Jammu, Surinder Singh, dealt with Bank cases while Bench Number 2 comprising 2nd Additional District & Sessions Judge Jammu, Dev Kotwal and Additional District Judge, (MACT) Jammu, Jatinder Singh Jamwal settled revision, appeals and MACT cases.Likewise, Bench Number 3 comprising Special Electricity Mobile Magistrate, Jammu, Sudhir Kumar Khajuria and Retainer Lawyer DLSA Jammu, Sumit Bhat, dealt with Electricity and Criminal Compoundable cases.A total of 35 cases were taken up in the Lok Adalat, of which, 30 cases were disposed off while an amount of Rs. 23,222,343 was awarded as compensation and a fine of Rs. 1500 was recovered on the spot.