Litigants’ facility inaugurated at District Court Complex Ganderbal

Ganderbal, Mar 9: Chief Justice N Kotiswar Singh inaugurated the litigants’ friendly public access booth known as e-Seva Kendra and litigants’ facility to the people at the District Court complex on Saturday.

The chief justice was accompanied by Judge High Court of J&K and Ladakh and Administrative Judge of District Ganderbal, Justice Javid Iqbal.

The Judicial Officers of the district besides Deputy Commissioner Ganderbal, Shaymbir, Senior Superintendent of Police, Ganderbal, Sandeep Gupta and members of the Ganderbal Bar Association thanked the Chief Justice for addressing the problems faced by the litigants, people, lawyers, and staff manning affairs of the court.

The Chief Justice inaugurated the litigants’ facility and interacted with people on the spot.

He also issued certain directions to make further improvements in the facility, to make it accessible to the people irrespective of their physical condition.

He directed the district administration as well as the Registry of High Court to ensure that necessary steps were taken to undertake the construction of the New Court Complex in the land already earmarked for the district judiciary.

On the occasion, e-Mulakat was arranged for the litigants through e-Seva Kendra from the remote end of District Jail Varanasi where one of the accused has been kept in judicial custody.

Monitoring the e-Mulakat of the litigants, the Chief Justice appreciated the district judiciary for achieving the milestone.

He issued instructions to expand the horizon of the e-Seva Kendra facility being provided under e-Seva Kendra to make it more user-friendly to cover the needs of the people.

Later, the Chief Justice also inspected and monitored various benches constituted for conducting the National Lok Adalat and also interacted with various parties to the litigations.

Inspecting the proceedings in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ganderbal, the Chief Justice settled 4 matrimonial cases.

He highlighted the importance of tolerance, trust and faith, love and affection, and mutual forbearance among the couples for the sustainability of good matrimonial relations.

The Chief Justice appreciated the efforts of the bar and the bench in properly addressing the social problems sympathetically and humanely.

He also issued instructions to conduct trials of matrimonial cases in camera to maintain privacy in matrimonial relations entangled in litigations before the courts.

Emphasising the importance of National Lok Adalat and amicable settlements through Lok Adalat, the Chief Justice impressed upon the people as well as lawyers to take advantage of ADRs as it was cost-effective and time-saving and restores the impaired relations.

Principal Secretary to Chief Justice, M K Sharma; OSD to Chief Justice and Registrar Judicial High Court of J&K and Ladakh, Farooq Ahmad Bhat; Joint Registrar (Judicial) High Court of J&K and Ladakh, Abdul Bari accompanied the Chief Justice.