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Lok Adalats for 227 cases held in Arunachal

By The Assam Tribune

ITANAGAR, May 15 - Lok Adalats for Motor Vehicle Act, insurance, money suit cases, etc, were held in the courts of the District and Sessions Judge, Yupia, and other courts in Basar, Bomdila, Khonsa, Yupia, Daporijo in Arunachal Pradesh yesterday.

Out of the 227 cases taken up, a total of 95 cases involving above Rs 36 lakh were settled in the Lok Adalats, Arunachal Pradesh State legal Services Authority (APSLSA) said in a press release here today.

The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge, Basar, settled the highest number of 56 cases involving Rs 7 lakh, out of the total 104 (money suit case).

Altogether eight cases involving Rs 29 lakh were settled in the court of District and Sessions Judge, Yupia, out of total 17 cases (MACT-16, Consumer-1).

The numbers of cases settled in various other courts were Chief Judicial Magistrate, Seppa (6), Judicial Magistrate First Class, Khonsa (5), Judicial Magistrate First Class, Daporijo (9) and Judicial Magistrate First Class, Yupia (11). The court of Additional District & Sessions Judge, Bomdila, could not settle a single case out of the total 49 taken up.

Further, the Arunachal Pradesh State Legal Services Authority visited the District Jail, Jully, during the day to see the conditions of the jail inmates and also to assess the availability of legal aids to the large number of undertrial prisoners (UTPs) in the Jail.

During the visit, the Legal Services Authority held an open meeting with the undertrial prisoners in the presence of District and Session Judge, Yupia, Budi Habung, SP (Prison) Nabam Gungte, and others.

The APSLSA decided to provide immediate legal aid to nearly 15 undertrial prisoners, the release added. � PTI

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