On the instruction of National Legal Services Authority (NALSA) New Delhi, Chhattisgarh State Legal Services Authority (CGSLSA) organised second National Lok Adalat of year 2022 across State on Saturday.

More than 400 benches were constituted for the second National Lok Adalat of the year 2022. The National Lok Adalat was held under the guidance Patron-in-Chief of the CGSLSA and Chief Justice of CGSLSA Arup Kumar Goswami and Executive Chairman of the CGSLSA Justice Goutam Bhaduri, the National Lok Adalat has turned out to be a huge success. The success story of amicable settlements has witnessed many smiling faces. This joyous moment of poor litigants has reached its peak when Justice Goutam Bhaduri along with Portfolio Judge of District Court Bilaspur Justice P Sam Kosy suddenly reached the District Court campus and personally interacted with the parties. In one case, a long dispute between brother and sister regarding ancestral property was amicably settled and both were felicitated with plant samplings by Justice Bhaduri with advice to live in a litigation free atmosphere. Another wave of smile was witnessed on the faces of husband and wife, who have entered into compromise in the case where husband had beaten up his wife. Justice P Sam. Kosy gave flower bouquet to the husband and asked him to give it to his wife with advice to live happily and peacefully. In yet another significant case, a physically handicapped old widow of the deceased, who died in road accident, was awarded with a sum of Rs 11 lakh, in presence of both judges who have wished her litigation free peaceful life.

This National Lok Adalat was organised in all the courts from Taluka level to High Court level through hybrid mode i.e. virtual and physical. Large number of cases worthy of settlement and compromise by mutual consent and conciliation of the parties have been disposed off. To expedite the disposal of petty Offenses, High Court of Chhattisgarh has also conferred the power of special sitting to Magistrates.

Talking to mediapersons in Bilaspur, Justice Gautam Bhaduri said that the National Lok Adalat would cross all previous figures of disposal in a single day. Member Secretary of the CGSLSA Siddharth Aggarwal informed that more than 1,70,000 cases were settled in the National Lok Adalat.