Patiala, 13 July, 2021 (Yes Punjab News)
As per the directions of Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ajay Tiwari, Judge Punjab & Haryana High Court-cum- Executive Chairman, Punjab State Legal Services Authority, SAS Nagar, The District Legal Services Authority Patiala today convened a quarterly meeting under the Chairmanship of Sh. Rajinder Aggarwal, District & Sessions Judge. Sh. Rajinder Aggarwal revealed that National Lok Adalat is going to be held on 11.09.2021.
He also stated that in the upcoming National Lok Adalat, Criminal Compoundable matters, Cases under Section 138 N.I. Act, Money recovery cases, MACT Cases, Labour and Employment dispute cases, Electricity, water bills and other bill payment cases(excluding non-compoundable), Matrimonial dispute (except divorce), Land Acquisition cases (pending before civil courts/tribunals), services matters relating to pay and allowance and retrial benefits;, Revenue cases &Other civil cases and Pre litigative cases shall be taken up for the disposal by amicable settlement between the parties.
Apart from this, implementation of publicity and promotion of Lok Adalats as well as Punjab Victim Compensation Scheme (u/s 357-A Cr.pc), NALSA Schemes with the collaboration of concerned departments was discussed in this meeting.
The matter with regard to the implementation of Plea Bargaining Scheme was also discussed and it was resolved that firstly the data relating to the cases falling under the Plea Bargaining Scheme would be collected and after identification of the cases further course of action would be adopted.
Further, Ms. Harkamal Kaur, SP D, Patiala has been asked to implement the direction contained in letter No. 3780 dated 05.07.2021 for providing legal aid to the suspect/arrestee at pre-arrest, arrest and remand stage.
Ms Parminder Kaur, District Legal Services Authority, Patiala also presented the progress report for the period of October 2020 to June 2021. She told that Legal Aid has been provided to the 333 beneficiaries. During this period, total 161 webinars have been conducted and total 7053 persons have attended the webinar through virtual mode.
Total 33 training programmes were conducted. Three National Lok Adalats were held during this period and in these National Lok Adalats total 49 benches were constituted, total 10604 cases were taken up, 4665 cases were settled, award an amount of Rs. 1006711597/- was passed.
Further in 13 victim compensation cases 34,60,793/- amount has been disbursed to the beneficiaries. Total 26 cases for pension (12 Old age Pension, 09 Widow Pension Cases and 05 under financial assistance to dependent children) have been got approved from the concerned departments.
The meeting amongst others was attended by Sh. Kumar Amit Deputy Commissioner, Ms. Harkamal Kaur SP D, Ms. Parminder Kaur, CJM-cum-Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, Patiala, Sh. Amit Malhan, CJM, Sh. Ravinder Singh DPRO, Sh. Sanjiv Gupta, District Attorney, Patiala, President Bar Counsel, and Dr. Manju Arora, nominated members of DLSA, Patiala.
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