Hoshiarpur:- As per the guidelines of Punjab State Legal Services Authority, SAS Nagar, the District Legal Services Authority, Hoshiarpur, on Saturday organized the first National Lok Adalat of the year in the district. This Lok Adalat was organized under the chairmanship of District and Sessions Judge-cum-Chairman, District Legal Services Authority, Rajinder Agarwal. Giving information, CJM-cum-Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, Neeraj Goyal said that for the success of the Lok Adalat, a total of 19 benches were constituted in the district.
These included 9 benches in Hoshiarpur Court Complex, 2 benches in Sub-Division Dasuha, 1 bench in Mukerian, 2 benches in Garhshankar and 5 benches of Revenue Courts. He said that a total of 29,451 cases were heard in the Lok Adalat of District Hoshiarpur, out of which 26,069 cases were disposed of on the spot. Along with this, a total of Rs. 13,84,84,145 awards were passed in the settlement of the parties.
The Secretary District Legal Services Authority said that long-pending and many complex cases are also disposed of in the Lok Adalat. Thus, in today's Lok Adalat, the case of Civil Appeal No. 12/2022 (CIS No. Civil Appeal /77/2022), Baljit Kaur and another vs. Jaswinder Kaur and another was also kept, which was under consideration in the court of District and Sessions Judge Hoshiarpur.
This dispute started in the year 2014, when the plaintiffs/respondents filed a suit seeking separate possession through division of the joint property of the parties. The plaintiffs/respondents claimed that they are not able to utilize their share in the disputed property, hence their share of the property needs to be separated.
Whereas the defence had rejected this argument stating that the plaintiffs/respondents have no right in the said property and the defence/appellant is the real owner of the property. In this case, a preliminary order was passed on 15.02.2022 declaring the shares of the parties against which the present appeal was filed on 17.03.2022 and the dispute between the parties continued.