THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, Dec 8: The stage is set for the fourth and last National Lok Adalat of the year 2023 in the civil courts of Daltonganj tomorrow.
Principal District and Sessions Judge Niraj Kumar Srivastav is quite keen to see more and more cases of MACT (motor accident claim tribunal) settled to the satisfaction of the stakeholders.
Court sources said around a dozen cases of the MACT are expected to be brought into the Lok Adalat.
Court sources expressing hope said the video conferencing of the DLSA Secretary Arpit Srivastav with top notches of the companies may see easy and amicable settlement of claims under the MACT.
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Bottleneck in MACT cases
According to the DLSA Secretary, “Senior officials of the companies who have the final say in the MACT do not sit in Daltonganj. This is a major bottleneck.”
“The senior officials sit either in Ranchi or in Patna. The panellist advocates here in Daltonganj keep them abreast of the claims put forward here. After going through the long-drawn procedures these senior or higher officials of the companies sitting either at Ranchi or in Patna used to give their piece of mind for settlements of the MACT cases. It thus used to take away a lot of time casting a shadow on the outcome of the MACT settlement in the National Lok Adalat.”
Arpit Srivastav said, “In consultation with the PDJ I spoke to top brasses of the companies sitting either in Ranchi or Patna through video conferencing. I talked to the higher officials of companies like National Insurance Company, Oriental Insurance Company, Chola Mandalam Company, Bajaj Finance, New India Insurance Company, United India Insurance Company etc and tried to convince these officials how important and necessary it is to have an amicable settlement of claims under the MACT in the National Lok Adalat.”
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