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Time of India
3 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Over 15,000 cases settled in National Lok Adalat in Kurukshetra, compensation worth Rs 5.85 crore awarded
Kurukshetra: A total of 15,376 cases were settled during the National Lok Adalat held across the District Court Complex, Shahabad, and Pehowa in Kurukshetra, under the leadership of District and Sessions Judge Dinesh Kumar Mittal. The Lok Adalat was organized by the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), with a total of 19,797 cases listed for resolution. According to a press release issued by DLSA Secretary and CJM Nitika Bhardwaj, the event witnessed the passing of settlement orders amounting to Rs 5,85,93,296 (Rs 5.85 crore). To ensure efficient disposal, several benches were constituted under the guidance of senior judicial officers, including Principal Judge Harleen A Sharma, Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Satish Kumar, ADSJ Devender, and Judicial Magistrates Renu Bala, Girraj Singh, Anita Rani, and Kapil, as well as Permanent Lok Adalat Vice-Chairman Praveen Gupta. Out of the 10,779 pre-litigation cases, 9,121 were successfully resolved, with settlement amounts totalling Rs 9,74,379. Additionally, from the 9,018 cases pending in court, 6,255 were settled on the spot, leading to compensation orders worth about Rs 5.76 crore. In total, 15,376 cases were resolved out of the 19,797 taken up, and settlements worth Rs 5.85 crore were ordered during the day-long legal initiative, which aims to provide speedy and amicable resolution to disputes outside the formal court system.
Indian Express
28-06-2025
- Indian Express
Application listing of peer's mobile number: Court dismisses former PEC girl student's plea for discharge
An Additional District and Sessions (ADSJ) court of Chandigarh has dismissed the application for discharge of a former PEC (Punjab Engineering College) student, who had allegedly mentioned the mobile phone number of another former PEC student on an application with obscene references. The girl-petitioner was booked in the FIR registered in 2019, under Section 509 (insulting the modesty of a woman) of the IPC and Section 67 of the IT Act. The woman in a revision petition had sought getting discharged from the FIR. The case had been registered on the complaint of a person who claimed he had a SIM which was being used by his daughter. However, someone listed his mobile number on an application, Cipher, without his or his daughter's consent. As a result, his daughter started receiving dirty messages and calls on her mobile number from unknown numbers. The complainant alleged that this caused mental agony and pain to his daughter, a student of Electrical Engineering (second year) who had to take her exams. Therefore, necessary action be taken against the culprit. Acting on the complaint, the police initiated an inquiry and learnt from the IP (Internet Protocol) address that the complainant's mobile number had been written on the Cipher app from a mobile number owned by a girl (accused), who is a student of PEC. The accused told the police that the girl student (victim) was also studying in the same college and used to quarrel with her on minor issues. Due to that, the accused had put the victim's mobile number on the app. The accused girl was arrested and later released on bail. The accused, however, filed an application for getting discharged from the case before the Judicial Magistrate, which was dismissed. She then filed a revision application before the ADSJ court, seeking to be discharged from the case. The defence counsel for the accused said that she had been framed in the case, and was named in the case on the basis of IP address but the IP address relied upon by the investigating agency was a public address and was being used by a large number of users. The said IP address was not sufficient to connect the accused with the offence. Also, she had been implicated on the basis of her alleged disclosure statement which could not have been used against her under Article 20(3) of the Constitution of India. On hearing the matter, the court of Rajnish Garg, Additional District and Sessions Judge, observed, 'Without doubt, as per detailed report of said IP addresses, same were being used by multiple users but there is no other mobile number which was used on both the IP addresses detail of which was placed on record during the relevant period except revisionist-accused while using her mobile number…Thus, sufficient evidence was collected by the investigating agency at the time of filing of challan which creates serious doubt in the role of revisionist-accused in the commission of offence as she was using the mobile number which was used from both the IP addresses at the relevant time…' '…it can be safely held that there is sufficient material with the Court which creates a grave suspicion regarding role of revisionist-accused in commission of the offence…', said the court while dismissing the revision application of girl-accused, and upholding the lower court order. The matter is now scheduled for evidence on September 18, 2025. The accused and the complainant girls have graduated from PEC now.
