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Ranchi, August 15 (HS). Ranchi District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) organized a Jail Court-cum-Legal Awareness Camp on Independence Day on Thursday at Birsa Munda Central Jail Hotwar Ranchi. The application of the prisoners confined in Birsa Munda Central Jail (Jail) at Hotwar was submitted to the Jail Court for the execution of 58 cases pending in various courts. Keeping in view the period spent in jail by the prisoners, a total of 58 cases were executed in the Jail Court on Thursday.
Present as chief guests were Ranchi's Justice Commissioner-cum-Chairman of District Legal Services Authority Diwakar Pandey, Additional Chief Justice Rajesh Kumar Singh, Justice Commissioner Asif Iqbal, Chandrabhanu, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Kamlesh Behera, District Legal Services Authority Secretary Rakesh Ranjan, Akshat Shrivastava, Rajkumar Pandey, Digvijay Nath Shukla, Shambhu Mahato, Manoj Indwar, Gautam Govinda, Abhishek Shrivastava, Saurabh Tripathi, Registrar, Shri Prashant Kumar Verma, Vijay Kumar Yadav, Railway Judicial Magistrate, Manya Tandon, Paridhi Sharma, Kanchan Kumari, Archana Mishra, Ekta Saxena, Smriti Rupam Topno and Divya Raghav.
For this, a committee of judicial officers was constituted under the leadership of the Judicial Commissioner of Ranchi Civil Court, which included Chief Judicial Magistrate Chandan, Secretary District Legal Services Authority Kamlesh Behera and other judicial magistrates. The cases and prisoners to be executed in the Jail Adalat were selected, in preparing the list of which LADC members Virendra Pratap and Saurabh Pandey played an important role. The selected cases before the judicial magistrates were placed in the Jail Adalat on the occasion of Independence Day, in which 58 cases were executed in the Jail Court and the concerned prisoners were released from jail.
In the Jail Adalat-cum-Legal Awareness Camp, Justice Commissioner Diwakar Pandey congratulated the prisoners on Independence Day. He said that the aim of the Jail Adalat is to bring the prisoners into the mainstream of society. He heard the problems of the prisoners and directed the jail staff present there to resolve them immediately. The women judicial magistrate members specially met the prisoners in the women's cell and took information related to legal aid and medical treatment. 15 law students also participated in the legal awareness camp.
On this occasion the Jail Superintendent, Jailor, Jail Clerk, Jail Staff, Birsa Munda Central Jail Hotwar, and members of LADC as well as court staff and prisoners were present.