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DEEPAK GUPTA, S.C.DAS
Anjan Das – Appellant
Versus
Subrata Bhattacharjee – Respondent
S.C. DAS, J.
Two issues fell for our consideration in this writ petition namely—
(i) Whether Legal Services Authorities/ Committees are authorized and/or empowered to constitute a Lok-Adalat in the form otherwise than prescribed by the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987.
(ii) Whether a Lok-Adalat constituted under Section 19 of the Legal Services Authorities Act can pass an order in an adjudicatory manner without having any compromise or settlement arrived between the parties to a dispute.
2. We have heard learned counsel Mr. A. Dasgupta for the petitioners and learned counsel, Mr. S. Lodh for the respondent Nos. 3, 4, 5(a), 5(b) and 8 respectively. Other respondents have chosen to remain absent.
3. The fact, in short, is that the respondent No.3, Dhirendra Kumar Das by filing a petition on 14.02.2012, before the Sub Divisional Legal Services Committee, Belonia, put up a pre-litigative dispute for settlement against Manindra Kumar Das (Dhupi), father of the writ petitioners and some others and sought partition of the property mentioned in the schedule of the petition. It was registered as pre-litigative dispute case No.29/2012 before the Temporary Lok-Adalat, Belonia. By fir
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