Haryana State Legal Services Authority organized its 3rd National Lok Adalat under the guidance of Justice Augustine George Masih, Judge, Punjab & Haryana High Court and Executive Chairman, Haryana State Legal Services Authority in the state on Saturday. An official spokesperson said that the National Lok Adalat was organized in 22 Districts and 33 sub-divisions of Haryana and 2,16,310 cases were settled pertaining to "Civil, Criminal, Matrimonial, Bank Recovery, etc" including the cases of Permanent Lok Adalats (Public Utility Services) working in all the ADR Centres out of 3,40,896. He said that 64 % of cases have been settled in total. The purpose of holding National Lok Adalat is to facilitate a platform to the litigants to settle their disputes amicably. He informed that during the National Lok Adalat, 96,628 cases were taken up and 64,982 cases were disposed of at pre-litigative stage. Total amount of Rs. 51,99,20,590 was settled, he added.
