https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=198769 Once a dispute is settled before Lok Adalat and an award is passed under Section 21 of the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, the award is final, binding, and executable as a decree. The criminal court cannot ignore that settlement and continue prosecution under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act as if no compromise had been reached; it becomes functus officio on the settled dispute. The proper remedy for the successful party is execution of the Lok Adalat award before the competent forum. The conviction and revisional order were therefore set aside, and enforcement was confined to execution proceedings. en-us Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:49:31 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=198769 Once a dispute is settled before Lok Adalat and an award is passed under Section 21 of the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987, the award is final, binding, and executable as a decree. The criminal court cannot ignore that settlement and continue prosecution under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act as if no compromise had been reached; it becomes functus officio on the settled dispute. The proper remedy for the successful party is execution of the Lok Adalat award before the competent forum. The conviction and revisional order were therefore set aside, and enforcement was confined to execution proceedings. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=198769