Chamarajanagar: Lok Adalat settles over 1.60 lakh cases, recovers ₹29.60 crore
The Chamarajanagar district in Karnataka successfully settled over 160,000 cases through National and Special Lok Adalats. These legal proceedings resulted in the recovery of nearly 30 crore rupees in both court and pre-litigation matters.
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Lok Adalats serve as a critical mechanism for reducing the massive backlog of cases in the Indian judicial system and providing accessible justice.
A total of 1,60,265 cases were settled in Chamarajanagar district during the second National Lok Adalat and a subsequent Special Lok Adalat, resulting in the recovery of ₹29.60 crore, Principal District and Sessions Judge and Chairman of the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) G. Prabhavathi said on Saturday.
Addressing a press conference, Ms. Prabhavathi said the National Lok Adalat, organised on July 11 by the DLSA and the Taluk Legal Services Committees at Gundlupet, Kollegal and Yelandur, disposed of 1,60,232 cases, including 4,602 pending court cases and 1,55,630 pre-litigation cases.
She said ₹12.65 crore was recovered through court cases and ₹16.24 crore through pre-litigation settlements, taking the total recovery under the National Lok Adalat to ₹28.89 crore.
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