Airport lok adalat settles 213 cases, 20L fine collected

New Delhi: Raj Singh Dhuriya got some unexpected visitors at his Punjab residence last month.
Fourteen years after booking him for carrying a forged resident permit at IGI Airport, a Delhi police team finally apprehended Dhuriya and within weeks, his case was settled at a lok adalat held on Saturday at the airport.
The lok adalat disposed of 213 cases in one day, exceeding the 172 that were settled in a Gujarat court earlier. "We had listed 219 cases to be heard on Saturday. But even 213 is quite an achievement. A total of Rs 20 lakh was collected in fines from offenders.
"Cases all the way from 1997 to 2010 were dealt with," said RA Sanjeev, DCP, IGI Airport.
Most of the cases dealt with on Saturday were those where the accused had pleaded guilty. Sources said they had made a list of possible cases that could be dealt with in the lok adalat and had started sending out summons since the past couple of months.
The IGI Airport police station had 2,157 registered cases towards the end of 2010. In the past seven months 1,390 cases have been settled.
09/07/11 Vandana Keelor/Times of India

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