Delayed justice turns meaningless: Allahabad High Court Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal

By PTI

MATHURA: Chief Justice Rajesh Bindal of the Allahabad High Court right here on Saturday sought to drive house the illness of delayed justice, recalling an incident through which a person refused to take the compensation 25 years after the loss of life of his son in a street accident and requested the courtroom to maintain the cash.

Justice Bindal narrated the incident whereas inaugurating the holding of Lok Adalat right here and stated, “Delayed relief often turns meaningless.”

Recalling the case involving a person combating a case for compensation from a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, Justice Bindal stated after the person was finally awarded the compensation, he requested the courtroom to maintain the cash with itself.

“Judge sahib, please keep this money with yourself now. I disparately needed it to raise my grandsons and educate them after their father, my son, died, in a road accident 25 years ago. I don’t need the money now because all of them are settled now,” Justice Bindal recalled the person as telling the courtroom.

The excessive courtroom’s chief justice narrated the incident in presence of Justice Rajeev Joshi of the excessive courtroom, the executive decide for the Mathura subordinate judiciary, and District Judge Rajeev Bharti.

Justice narrated the incident whereas urging the Lok Adalat to settle most numbers of disputes, saying the Lok Adalat does what Lord Shri Krishna did to forestall Mahabharata and Lord Hanuman and Angad did to forestall the battle of Ramayana.

Chief Justice Bindal additionally suggested banks and LIC to undertake a constructive perspective in order that most circumstances are settled.

As in opposition to 1,87,515 circumstances, associated to district collectorate and tehsils, 1,27,567 circumstances have been settled on Saturday by the Lok Adalat, secretary Sonika Verma of Mathura’s District Legal Service Authority stated.