Budgam, May 13 : A second National Lok Adalat on the insightful directions of Justice N. Kotiswar Singh Chief Justice of High Court of J&K and Ladakh, Patron in Chief JKLSA and Justice Tashi Rabstan, Executive Chairman, National Lok Adalat was organised here in this central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Saturday. The Adalat was inaugurated by Khalil Ahmad Choudhary Principal District & Sessions Judge (Chairman District Legal Services Authority) Budgam, at District Court Complex Budgam at 10:30 A.M. Each Court had identified cases for the Lok Adalat beforehand and same were placed before Nine (9) different benches constituted by DLSA Budgam for settlement in National Lok Adalat. Bench Number 1, comprised of Khalil Ahmad Choudhary (Pr. Distt. & Sessions Judge Budgam) and Ms. Farah Bashir (Munsiff JMIC Budgam) Bench Number 2 comprised of Aijaz Ahmad Khan (Additional District and Sessions Judge Budgam) and Sheikh Gowher Hussain (Special Mobile Magistrate Budgam) Bench Number 3 comprised of Noor Mohammad Mir (Chief Judicial Magistrate Budgam) and Advocate Javid Ahmad Mir (Panel Lawyer DLSA Budgam). Bench Number 4 comprised of Mir Wajahat (Sub Judge Chadoora) and Uzma Amin (Munsiff JMIC Chadoora) Bench Number 5 Comprised of Massarat Jabeen (Munsiff JMIC Magam ) In-charge (Additional Special Mobile Magistrate, Beerwah) and Adv. Mohd Yaqoob (Panel Lawyer). Bench Number 6 comprised of Fakhar un Nissa (Munsiff JMIC Chararisharief) and N.A Mashooq (President, Bar Association Chararisharief) Bench Number 7 Comprised of Dr. Syed Farhana Asghar (District Social Welfare Officer Budgam) and Mushtaq Ahmad Parray (Tehsil Social Welfare Officer Budgam) Bench Number 8 Comprised of Zamir Ali (Assistant Labour Commissioner Budgam) and Farooq Ahmad (Labour Inspector Budgam) Bench Number 9 comprised of Imtiyaz Ahmad (Tehsildar Budgam) and Zubair Ahmad Wani (Naib Tehsildar headquarter). Cases for settlement included that of Civil, Criminal Compoundable, Cheque bounce, Bank matters, MACT, Land Compensation, Matrimonial, Electricity and Pre-litigation matters. Further, Pre-litigation matters were taken up, which included PDD matters, bank recovery matters, PHE cases, Social Welfare Schemes, Labour, Revenue, Matrimonial disputes, land disputes, BSNL cases, municipality cases and other Government schemes etc. A total number of 7332 matters were taken up for their amicable settlement, out of which 6611 matters were settled. Besides, an amount of Rs. 19,67,44,792/= was realized in total in the settlement.
