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NEW DELHI: In an important judgment, the Noida authority had issued a notification in March 1983 for acquisition of land in villages situated in Tehsil Dadri for planned industrial development. Land owners were given compensation at the rate of Rs 20 per square yard in November 1984. None of the land owners questioned the rate of compensation and all accepted the amount due to them. One Fateh Mohammed filed an application seeking reference against the Award of November 28, 1984 and it was made over to a Lok Adalat, where Noida authority settled with him in 2016 and agreed to pay Rs The other landowners saw the opportunity and successfully pleaded before the Allahabad HC for grant of compensation at the rate of Rs 297 per square yard on the ground that Lok Adalat awarded decrees had precedential value. NOIDA challenged the HC order in SC. A bench of Justices K M Joseph and P S Narasimha framed the question, “Whether the Award passed by a Lok Adalat under Section 20 of the Writing the judgment, Justice Joseph disagreed with the HC view and said Lok Adalats do not employ any judicial scrutiny and under the legal services act only encourage the parties to settle amicably. It said even though the award by Lok Adalat could be enforceable like a decree, it cannot in the judicial arena have a precedential value. “It is clear beyond the shadow of any doubt that the jurisdiction of the Lok Adalat under Section 20 is to facilitate a settlement of disputes between the parties in a cas...

By Express News Service NEW DELHI: The BSES is organising first-of-its-kind hybrid Lok Adalat in East and Central Delhi for amicable and on-the-spot settlement of power-theft cases. For this the power discom Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) has partnered with the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA). It is being organised on January 17, 2021 between 10 am and 3 pm. To participate in the special ‘hybrid’ Lok Adalat, all consumers will have to pre-register themselves at the local BYPL customer care centre, nearest to their place of residence. Consumers will be allocated a specific time-slot. On the day of the Lok Adalat, they will have to reach the BYPL Circle Office at the allocated time, either in person or through their authorised representatives. At the venue, all the cases will be taken-up at the virtual courts, where all the participants, including the Judges and the Court officials, will join virtually through video conferencing. Hybrid Adalat is a blend of online and offline participation to ensure safety of the consumers and officials, seamless connectivity and faster resolution of the cases. NEW DELHI: The BSES is organising first-of-its-kind hybrid Lok Adalat in East and Central Delhi for amicable and on-the-spot settlement of power-theft cases. For this the power discom Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) has partnered with the Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA). It is being organised on January 17, 2021 between 10 am and 3 pm. To participate in the special ...

Seventy-year-old Jaspal Singh had been struggling for over a year to get back his property in Defence Colony that he had mortgaged against a loan taken from a bank. On Sunday,however,it took him just half an hour to get it back after a court settled his case in the Lok Adalat at the Patiala House courts complex. More banks have now joined hands with the Delhi Legal Services Authority (DLSA) now to bring down the ever-mounting judicial backlog. After the success of the recent Lok Adalat held in collaboration with ICICI Bank,Canara Bank,which is a public sector bank,apart from Axis Bank participated in today’s Mega Lok Adalat that saw the disposal of almost ninety per cent of their cases. The Lok Adalat was held to settle recovery cases pertaining to personal loans,mortgage loans and education loans of the two banks. Unlike previous instances,all cases taken up by the DLSA were referred by the banks while in the pre-litigative stage,to prevent the fresh inflow of cases in courts. The two courts assigned by the DLSA for the purpose,recovered a sum of over Rs 45 lakh by settling 32 cases,of which Rs 31,73,783 was obtained from the court of the presiding officer Sanjay Sharma. “Once again,the Lok Adalats got a favourable response from both the parties and we were successful in settling most cases,” said Sanjay Sharma,project officer of DLSA. Litigants went home happy after their cases pending for years were settled in no time. The Lok Adalat offered 47-year-old Ramesh Mishra a ...

• Mr. Justice Siddharth Mridul. Website Delhi Lok Adalat or Delhi Legal Services Authority (People's Court) is an "Section 22 B of The Legal Services Authorities Act 1987 provides for the establishment of Permanent Lok Adalats (PLA) for exercising jurisdiction in respect of one or more History and Administration [ ] Delhi Lok Adalat formed under Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 Delhi Lok Adalat is formed with objective and purpose of ensuring and providing visible, practical and positive initiatives ensuring equality and non bias decisions as laid down in Constitution of India and assumes significance due to illiteracy and poverty prevalent in India. Lok Adalats are constituted at below levels: • State Authorities. • High Court. • District and Taluk level. 1. Chairman. 2. Secretaries. • Mandal Committees. • Mediation Centres. Types of Lok Adalat: • Permanent Lok Adalat - Provides mechanism for adjudging cases referred under public utility services like transport, postal and telegraph. • National Lok Adalat - Held from year 2015, every month on specific topic across India. These are held on a single day disposing off large number of pending cases. • Mega Lok Adalat - Held across all courts in state in a single day. • Mobile Lok Adalats - These types of Lok Adalats are organised occasionally which travel from one place to other across country occasionally and help resolving disputes. Mr. Justice Siddharth Mridul., Chief Justice, Delhi High Court, Delhi, is current patron...