The e-inauguration of the Mega e-Lok-Adalat in Karnataka will begin shortly. It is organized by Karnataka State Legal Services Authority and High Court Legal Services Committee.

Link of the e-inauguration: https://t.co/c5YdB2QtCI
The event begins.
All dignitaries are being welcomed right now.

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Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka inaugurates the Mega e-Lok Adalat by lighting the lamp.
CJ Oka now delivers inaugural speech.
CJ Oka: 1,15,013 cases were disposed off in the State during the last Mega e-Lok Adalat. We had 870 panels last time.

For today, we have identified more than 3 lakh cases.We will have more than 870 panels for today.
CJ Oka: Most important lesson we have learnt during COVID pandemic is that we can continue to run institutions, probably not as before, but in the best possible way.
CJ Oka: Lok Adalats during pandemic have a different importance. We have posted many accident claims, execution cases.
CJ Oka: After two, three months, we will have one more e-Lok Adalat. He expresses hope that during that time, constraints such as wearing masks/social distancing are not there.
CJ Oka: HC legal Service committee has been very active from helping migrants to go back to their states during the pandemic to help identify children selling toys in traffic stations.
CJ Oka ends his address.

Additional Solicitor General MB Nargund now begins his speech.
Nargund: One good ground for compromise is better than 100 grounds for litigation.

He urges public to make use of this opportunity.
Advocate General Prabhuling Navadgi now begins.
Navadgi: Litigation is only a type of dispute settlement, which is overused and abused now.

The idea is to stir a change in mindset to shift to Alternate Dispute Resolution.

Lok Adalats are a much needed change in legal reforms
He quotes Abraham Lincoln to conclude by saying - discourage litigation.
Now, President of Advocates Association, Bengaluru, AP Ranganatha is delivering his address.
The inauguration programme concludes with a vote of thanks.

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More from Court

Some initial observations about this case, and in particular what the Court of Appeal made of the Attorney General’s application to refer these sentences as “unduly lenient”.

Spoiler: it makes uncomfortable reading for the Attorney General.


First, by way of background. I was one of several commentators astonished that the Attorney General, who has no known experience of practising criminal law, decided to personally present this serious case at the Court of Appeal.

It appeared an overtly political decision.


Comments leaked to the press confirmed this was a political decision, to capitalise on a tragic case in the headlines.

A “friend” of the Attorney General told the Express that she was pursuing the case *against* legal advice. She also took a preemptive pop at the judges.


On the day of the hearing, it appeared from selected reports that the AG was out of her depth. She appeared to be making political submissions to the Court of Appeal that have no place in a case of this type.


The Court of Appeal judgment helps understand what happened.

The AG played a limited role. She “rehearsed some of the facts and said that the sentences had caused widespread public concern”

Her contribution was seemingly not considered by the Court to be legal submissions. Oof.

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