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The Hindu: Madurai: Wednesday, April 29, 2015.
 
Information obtained by a lawyer based in Madurai under the Right to Information Act, 2005 has revealed how Lok Adalats are turning out to be more of an exercise aimed at projecting fancy figures of disposal instead of being an effective alternative mechanism to redress grievances.
 
The information obtained by R. Karunanidhi from the Additional Superintendent-cum-Public Information Officer of the Central Prison in Salem states that 416 prisoners involved in petty cases were released on payment of fine during a Lok Adalat conducted in the prison on September 7.
 
However, answering a series of pointed questions posed by the lawyer, the PIO said that of those who were released, 283 were arrested and lodged in the prison on September 6, a day before the Lok Adalat, and 109 were arrested, lodged and released on the same day when the Lok Adalat took place.
Details provided by the PIO in the format of a tabular column in a compact disc showed that all of them had been booked in bunches by policemen attached to various police stations in Salem either on charges relating to possession of liquor, rash driving or for having allegedly uttered obscene words in public places.
 
“Of the 416 prisoners released during the Lok Adalat, only two had been undergoing incarceration since December 2013. All others seemed to have been arrested and lodged in the prison just for the purpose of showing better disposal figures and collection of huge amount of fine,” says Mr. Karunanidhi.
 
The information provided to him categorically states that there were only 740 inmates, including 393 under trials, in the prison at 6 p.m. on September 6. “But shockingly, 278 people were lodged in the prison between 6 p.m. on September 6 and 6 a.m. on September 7.
“Apart from such huge numbers of arrests made within 12 hours, 109 prisoners were lodged in the prison even as the Lok Adalat proceedings were being held on September 7 and got released by the end of those proceedings,” he adds.
 
Agreeing that the focus of Lok Adalats have shifted towards recording huge disposal figures, a senior jurist in the Madras High Court Bench here said that it was high time people at the helm of affairs took stock of the situation and introduced corrective measures.

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