Gujarats judiciary disposed as many as 3.03 lakh cases during aNational Lok Adalatorganized at district courts across the state, the firstLok Adalatheld in courtrooms after the Covid-19 pandemic set in.
Thousands of FIRs that were registered against people for lockdown violations, with charges of violation of the
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According to the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority, under whose aegis the Lok Adalat was held, a total of 2,78,697 pending cases and 24,345 pre-litigation cases were disposed of. In all, disputes involving accident claims were settled and amounts to the tune of Rs 767.76 crore were paid to claimants. These disputes included a case in which a claim of Rs 71.25 lakh was paid to a litigant at the Mirzapur rural court in Ahmedabad.