Payment of Rs 2.66 crore in Arbitration Dispute Tops among Cases Settled in Lok Adalat in DK & Udupi
Mangaluru: The New Mangalore Port Authority (NMPA) paid Rs 2.66 crore to Messers Admiral Marine Services Limited at the National Lok Adalat here on Saturday for settlement of the arbitration petition of April 2022, which was pending before the First Additional District and Sessions Court, Mangaluru. This arbitration petition was among the 14,840 cases settled during 48 sessions of National Lok Adalat held across 44 courts in Dakshina Kannada. The total settlement amount amounted to Rs 17.97 crore.
Among the cases settled included payment of Rs 25 lakh in a case of dishonour of cheque filed in 2019. In a Motor Vehicle Accident Compensation (MVC) petition filed in 2021, the National Insurance Company agreed to pay Rs 23.3 lakh as compensation to two petitioners. A senior citizen was granted compensation of Rs 1.5 lakh in an MVC case, while another senior citizen was paid a compensation of Rs 1.2 lakh in a case of dishonour of cheque. The other cases settled include two cases where a husband and a wife had a reunion.
A partition suit of 2013 pending before the court of the Principal Civil Judge and Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Puttur, was also settled. In Udupi, Universal Sompo General Insurance agreed to pay Rs 91 lakh as compensation to family members of a Udupi City Municipal Council employee who died in an accident in January 2021. Among the other cases settled in Udupi district included the reunion of a 64-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman of Udupi.
