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Chhattisgarh Organizes India's first e-Lok Adalat:

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       Chhattisgarh High Court and Legal services Authority pioneered e- Lok Adalats in the state during the lockdown time and through video conferencing facilities amicably settled over 2,200 cases.

In an unique attempt, litigants were connected from their homes to concerned district and tehsil courts as well as to the High courts which took up 156 cases and settled 155 of them.

All court in 23 districts, from Bastar and Dantewada to Raipur, were connected through video conferencing systems to litigants.

 Raipur saw the highest 515 of 848 cases getting settled. It was followed by Durg where 293 cases of 300 got settled.

About Lok Adalat:   Lok Adalat (people's Court) is one of India's alternate dispute resolution mechanisms.

      It is where the cases that are pending or at the pre=litigation stage in a court of law are settled.

This system, based on Gandhian principles, aims to settle disputes through arbitration at the grass-root level.

Lok Adalat has jurisdiction on any case pending before or any matter falling within the jurisdiction of and is not brought before any court for which the Lok Adalat is organised. It can deal with cases like compoundable civil, revenue and criminal cases, motor accident compensation claims, partition claims, matrimonial and family disputes, land-related cases, labour cases, bank unpaid loan cases and so on.