Lok Adalat setting in progress at Mon District HQ on December 11. A total of 212 cases and amount involving Rs 3.08 crore was settled during Lok Adalat sittings held across Nagaland on Saturday. (Photo Courtesy: NSLSA)
Kohima, December 11 (MExN): A total of 212 cases/disputes were disposed off in the State Lok Adalat out of the total 736 disputes/matters/cases listed for compromise settlement during National Lok Adalat (People’s Court) conducted by the District Legal Services Authorities (DLSAs) across Nagaland on December 11.
DLSAs in Nagaland joined the rest of the country National Lok Adalat by conducting 11 sitting benches constituted in the respective district headquarters.
The listed cases included cases in pending stage as well as in pre-litigation stage mostly in the category of Bank Recovery, Criminal Compoundable cases & Motor Accident Cases Tribunal (MACT), informed a press release from the Nagaland State Legal Service Authority
Settlement amount involved in some of the cases amounted to a total of Rs 3,08,64,322 (Three crore eight lakhs sixty four thousand three hundred twenty two), it said.
The success of the disposal in cases was achieved through arbitration, conciliation and amicable efforts by conciliators which were presided over by the Judges of the subordinate Courts in the Districts, it informed.
The 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, it added.
The amount included the fine money, bank recovery money, money suits, compensation money, etc.
The NSLSA also expressed its appreciation to the bank officials in various part of the State for their “enthusiastic and amenable participation, for settling cases on bank recovery cases and cases under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act which are permissible under the jurisdiction of the Lok Adalat Scheme.
Such cooperation by Bank officials have resulted in quick and inexpensive settlement of case and a significant number of recovery benefiting not only the litigants/parties but even the banks and the financial institutions, it said.
The NSLSA is vested with the jurisdiction to organise and conduct National Lok Adalat (through Alternate Dispute Resolution methods and has been conducting along with the rest of the country periodically benefiting the citizens/litigants/parties with the privilege of settling their disputes at free of cost all across the State, it added.
As per the date provided by the Member Secretary NSLSA, Victo Sema, the highest amount of settlement was in Dimapur at 1.69 crore, where 76 case out of 123 were disposed. The settlement of cases was also highest in the district.
The highest number of case was heard in Kohima (379) but only 31 were disposed off involving settlement of Rs 35.18 lakh, it added. (See Table)
Zunheboto (5) and Wokha (11) and Mokokchung (15) took up least number of cases.
Meanwhile, out of total 715 cases taken up, most involved bank recovery cases at 559, out of which 197 were settled. It involved settlement amount of Rs 2,24,42,192 (Rs 2.24 crore).
There 156 cases designated as “Other Civil Cases,” out of which 15 were settled with settlement amount at Rs 1,57,130.
A total of 19 pending cases were also disposed off involving Rs 82.65 lakh, added the datat provided by the NSLSA Member Secretary.
