UDHAMPUR: The 2nd National Lok Adalat for the year 2025 was held here today under the Chairmanship and Supervision of Virinder Singh Bhou, Chairman District Legal Services Authority, Pr. District & Sessions Judge, Udhampur and Dr. Smriti Sharma, Secretary DLSA for the settlement of cases.

In all 11 Benches were constituted across the District Udhampur with the main Bench consisting of Virinder Singh Bhou, Pr. District & Sessions Judge and Kamlesh Pandit, Additional District & Sessions Judge, Udhampur.

A total number of 1822 cases of different nature were taken up, out of which 1483 cases were settled with Rs 30669792 realised as settlement amount.

The Bench No 2 consisted of Rekha Kapoor, Chief Judicial Magistrate and Pooja Raina, Sub Judge/Special Mobile Magistrate; Bench No. 3 comprised of Rishabh Koushal, District Mobile Magistrate (T) and Advocate Nikhileshwar Singh- Panel Lawyer; Bench no. 4 comprised of Akashdeep, Additional Special Mobile Magistrate and Advocate Malikarjun Singh Slathia, Panel Lawyer; Bench No 5 comprised of Suhasini Vasisatha, Chairman TLSC Majalta and Advocate Mohan Lal Gupta, Panel Lawyer, DLSA Majalta; Bench No. 6 comprised of Ravinder Singh, Chairman TLSC Chenani and Adv Balwan Singh, Panel Lawyer, DLSA Chenani, Bench No. 7 comprised of Shabnam Sheikh, Chairman TLSC Ramnagar and Adv K.D Sharma, Ramnagar, Bench no 8 comprised of Jai Singh, Tehsildar Udhampur and Adv Akhil Khajuria, Panel Lawyer, DLSA Udhampur, Bench No 9 comprised of Satish Kumar, Tehsildar Ramnagar and Adv Vikrant Sharma, Advocate Ramnagar, Bench No. 10 comprised of Kamini Choudhary, Tehsildar Majalat and Adv Amit Sharma, Advocate Majalta and Bench No. 11 comprised of Pankaj Singh, Tehsildar Chenani and AdvAjmer Singh Katoch, Advocate Chenani.