Budgam: Under the insightful directions of Hon’ble Mr. Justice N. Kotiswar Singh Chief Justice of High Court of J&K and Ladakh, Patron in Chief JKLSA , Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tashi Rabstan, Executive Chairman, 2nd National Lok Adalat was organized today on 13th May 2023 in District Budgam. The National Lok Adalat was inaugurated by Mr. 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.
The Bench No. 1, comprised of Mr. Khalil Ahmad Choudhary (Pr. Distt. & Sessions Judge Budgam) and Ms. Farah Bashir (Munsiff JMIC Budgam) Bench No. 2 comprised of Mr. Aijaz Ahmad Khan (Additional District and Sessions Judge Budgam) and Mr. Sheikh Gowher Hussain (Special Mobile Magistrate Budgam) Bench No.3 comprised of Mr. Noor Mohammad Mir (Chief Judicial Magistrate Budgam) and Advocate Javid Ahmad Mir (Panel Lawyer DLSA Budgam). Bench No. 4 comprised of Mr. Mir Wajahat (Sub Judge Chadoora) and Ms. Uzma Amin (Munsiff JMIC Chadoora) Bench No. 5 Comprised of Ms. Massarat Jabeen (Munsiff JMIC Magam )In-charge (Additional Special Mobile Magistrate, Beerwah) and Adv. Mohd Yaqoob (Panel Lawyer). Bench No. 6 comprised of Ms. Fakhar un Nissa (Munsiff JMIC Chararisharief) and Mr. N.A Mashooq (President, Bar Association Chararisharief) Bench No. 7 Comprised of Dr. Syed Farhana Asghar (District Social Welfare Officer Budgam) and Mr. Mushtaq Ahmad Parray (Tehsil Social Welfare Officer Budgam) Bench No. 8 Comprised of Mr. Zamir Ali (Assistant Labour Commissioner Budgam) and Mr. Farooq Ahmad (Labour Inspector Budgam) Bench No. 9 comprised of Mr. Imtiyaz Ahmad (Tehsildar Budgam) and Mr. Zubair Ahmad Wani (Naib Tehsildar headquarter). Cases for settlement included cases 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.
In all the benches 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.
