PERMANENT AND CONTINUOUS LOK ADALATS

To enable the Courts to refer more contentious matters to Lok Adalats which can give repeated sittings to the parties, and to enable general public to take their disputes at pre-litigative stage to Lok Adalats for exploring possibility of amicable settlement, Permanent and Continuous Lok Adalats of amicable settlement, a Permanent and Continuous Lok Adalat is functioning in the Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh which is headed by a retired Judge of the High Court.

Permanent and Continuous Lok Adalat (redesigned as “Samjhauta Sadans” with effect from 19.7.2002) are also functioning in 10 districts of Haryana viz. Ambala, Panchkula, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Jhajjar, Hissar, Karnal, Rewari, Rohtak and Sirsa which are headed by retired judicial officers.  In the remaining districts and sub-divisional courts of Haryana, serving judicial officers are presiding over such “Samjhauta Sadans” on rotational basis.