Litigation involving former cricketer Sadanand Vishwanath among 3.01 lakh pending court cases settled in KSLSA’s Lok Adalat

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The national-level Lok Adalat organised by the Karnataka State Legal Services Authority (KSLSA) connected December 13 witnessed colony of 3.01 lakh litigations pending successful assorted courts crossed the State, including 1 betwixt erstwhile cricketer Sadanand Vishwanath and his tenants.

Addressing a property conference, Justice Anu Sivarama, justice of the High Court of Karnataka and the enforcement chairperson of KSLSA, said that 1.04 crore pre-litigation cases, including 24.29 lakh postulation challan cases, were besides settled arsenic portion of the Lok Adalat.

Mr. Vishwanath, a erstwhile India wicket-keeper, had settled the suit, initiated by his tenants, D. Chandra Shekar and others, successful 2024, challenging enactment initiated by him to evict them. The quality was settled arsenic the premier tenant agreed to vacate the premises connected receiving the lease rental deposit magnitude of ₹35 lakh from Mr. Vishwanath.

A 92-year-old pistillate enactment an extremity to her litigation with her son, who joined the Lok Adalat successful Ramanagara done videoconference from London, and this was among the 2,144 litigations involving elder citizens that were settled.

The Lok Adalat besides witnessed the reunion of 367 couples.

The solution of 13,517 cheque dishonour cases, 4,660 centrifugal conveyance mishap claims, and cases of execution of awards of onshore acquisition, mishap assertion compensation, disputes earlier the existent property regulatory authority, user quality redressal fora, indebtedness betterment tribunal, etc., person resulted successful outgo of astir ₹3,100 crore that was instrumentality successful the ineligible proceedings.

Published - December 16, 2025 11:11 p.m. IST

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