While quashing an order of a Mandal Legal Services Committee after noting that it was not a compromise/settlement award but in the nature of an execution petition pertaining to a property dispute suit, Telangana High Court said that the committee had exceeded its jurisdiction. The Mandal Legal Services Committee or for that matter the Lok Adalats do not have the …
The Rajasthan High Court has held that Lok Adalats have no adjudicatory power and can only make awards on the basis of a compromise between the parties. The Court, while allowing a writ Ppetition, quashed the Lok Adalat’s decision permitting Public Prosecutor to withdraw prosecution, and ordered for restoration of the criminal matter, granting the parties the liberty to proceed …
While stating that "during long experience as a member of judiciary, I have not come across even a single case where the Lok Adalat has passed an award in compliance of provisions of Regulation 17 and specimen annexed thereto", Justice Rekha Mittal of the Punjab & Haryana High Court recently directed, "The Lok Adalats in the States of Punjab, Haryana …
