The Third National Lok Adalat for the year 2024 will be held on September 14 (Saturday) next across Tripura to resolve 23,994 pending cases.

The Member secretary Tripura State Legal Services Authority (TSLSA), Juma Datta Chowdhury addressing a press conference on Thursday  said that based on the directives of National Legal Service Authority, a total of 51 courts of Tripura including High Court will resolve the pending cases of motor vehicle act and appeals cases, NI act, matrimonial cases, civil and criminal compoundable cases, family disputes, bank’s non-performing asset case, disposal of Traffic Chillan cases etc.

Ms Datta Chowdhury   added that altogether 23, 994 pending cases would be taken up in courts for disposal including 3, 920 pre-litigative cases,  20,074 pending cases including bank’s non-performing asset, MACT cases, traffic challan cases, land dispute cases, appeals and trial cases and 286 cases of matrimonial dispute,  1601 cases of cheque bounce(NI Act), 11 job related cases,  Motor Vehicle Act cases and other cases would be taken up in the  51 courts across eight districts of the state including in Agartala.

One bench of National Lok Adalat will be set up at the High Court of Tripura, where 31 pending cases would be taken up for resolution.

Earlier, the summons and e-notices to all the parties of these cases were issued by the respective courts and TSLSA has requested all concerned persons to remain present on the scheduled date in their respective courts for disposal of pending cases. TSLSA added that law volunteers and para-legal volunteers will remain present in all courts to provide logistic support to all plaintiffs and defendants during the hearing of cases. The hearing for these cases will be held through physical or through direct appearances   and courts will start their functioning from morning 10 AM and will continue up to 4 PM on Saturday next.