By IANS
New Delhi : A lok adalat organised here Sunday cleared more than 12,000 pending cases relating to traffic fines, helping reduce the burden on the capital’s district courts.
The lok adalat was organised by traffic police and the Delhi Legal Service Authority (DLSA).
“We have received a very good response from people and are expecting good numbers on Dec 16 too, when challans of the commercial vehicles will also be taken up,” said DLSA secretary Sangeeta Dhingra.
According to DLSA, a total of 12,892 cases from all four district courts in the capital were disposed of.
“The Rohini court, which had the highest disposal rate of pending challans, generated a good amount of revenue too and emerged as the clear winner,” added Dhingra.
As many as 3,987 cases were disposed of at the Rohini court that generated Rs.340,885 in revenue. At the Patiala House court as many as 3,146 cases generated revenue of Rs 232,650, followed by the Karkardooma court (3,001 cases) and the Tis Hazari (2,758 cases).
The lok adalat was last held in September, in which the courts had settled 43,202 cases of traffic fines and the police had collected over Rs.6.3 million.
“We have organised the lok adalat to clear the backlog of over 200,000 traffic challans. We have chosen Sunday so that everyone finds time to pay fine for traffic violation. It is a good bargain for any motorist who wants to settle his notice through lok adalat,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Traffic) Qamar Ahmed.
The traffic police have also arranged for providing information on notices pending against a vehicle via SMS. To know the status of a traffic case, mobile users can type ‘N’ followed by space and registration number of the vehicle and send it to 50100.