Staff Reporter.TOD.Balurghat
The first Lok Adalat of the year in West Bengal was held on Saturday at the Balurghat District Court premises, where thousands of litigants gathered in hopes of resolving long-pending legal disputes through a faster and more accessible judicial process.
Organized by the District Legal Services Authority, the initiative sought to expedite the settlement of cases involving bank loans, financial transactions and other civil disputes. To facilitate the proceedings, authorities constituted five separate benches for hearing and resolving cases.Nearly 4,000 litigants had been invited to participate in the daylong legal forum, officials said, underscoring the scale of the effort to ease judicial burdens and provide timely redress to ordinary citizens.
Sayantani Chowdhury, secretary of the District Legal Services Authority, said the Lok Adalat was aimed at reducing prolonged legal complications while saving people both time and money.“The initiative is intended to provide quicker resolutions to longstanding legal matters and make justice more accessible for the common people,” Ms. Chowdhury said.
She added that the next Lok Adalat session is scheduled for September, followed by another sitting on Dec. 12.The court premises remained busy throughout the day, with litigants, lawyers, bank representatives and administrative officials participating in proceedings. Many attendees expressed hope that the alternative dispute resolution mechanism would help them secure faster and less cumbersome justice.
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