Mathura:
Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal of Allahabad Supreme Court in Mathura on Saturday attempted to bring home the ailment of delayed justice, recalling an incident in which a man 25 years after the death of his son in a road accident refused to collect damages and ordered the court to order it. to keep money.
Judge Bindal recounted the incident as he inaugurated Lok Adalat’s company in Mathura, saying, “Delayed relief often becomes meaningless.” Recalling the case where a man fought a compensation claim from a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Justice Bindal said that after the man was finally awarded the compensation, he asked the court to keep the money.
“Judge sahib, keep this money with yourself now. I was wrong to raise and raise my grandsons after their father, my son, died in a traffic accident 25 years ago. I don’t need the money now, because they are all settled now,” Justice Bindal remembers the man against the court.
The Supreme Court Chief Justice told the incident in the presence of Supreme Court Justice Rajeev Joshi, the administrative judge for Mathura’s Subordinate Judiciary, and District Judge Rajeev Bharti.
Justice related the incident while urging the Lok Adalat to settle the maximum number of disputes, saying that the Lok Adalat is doing what Lord Shri Krishna did to prevent Mahabharata and Lord Hanuman and Angad did to avoid the battle of Ramayana .
Chief Justice Bindal also advised banks and LIC to adopt a positive stance so that maximum cases are settled.
As against 1,87,515 cases related to the district collector and tehsils, 1,27,567 cases were handled by the Lok Adalat on Saturday, Mathura’s District Legal Service Authority secretary Sonika Verma said.