The next time UP 112 police response vehicle rolls into a village or a remote locality, it may have more than an emergency message to deliver. Starting Monday, Lucknow’s police response vehicles (PRVs) have been pressed into service to tell people where and how they can get their pending disputes settled without years of litigation.
The next time UP 112 police response vehicle rolls into a village or a remote locality, it may have more than an emergency message to deliver. Lucknow: The next time a UP 112 police response vehicle (PRV) arrives in a village or a remote locality, it may carry more than an emergency callout. From Monday, PRVs in Lucknow have been deployed to spread awareness about ways to settle pending disputes through the National Lok Adalat scheduled for Sept 12 and the Mediation 3.0 drive, offering alternatives to prolonged litigation.
District Judge and DLSA chairman Malkhan Singh and the police’s National Lok Adalat nodal officer Kiran Yadav launched the campaign to take legal-awareness messages to the city outskirts, villages and hard-to-reach areas.
Officials said the objective is to use the police’s broad field presence as a channel to inform people—especially those with limited access to legal information—about dispute resolution mechanisms based on mutual consent and mediation. Starting Monday, Lucknow’s police response vehicles (PRVs) have been pressed into service to tell people where and how they can get their pending disputes settled without years of litigation. In a joint initiative between Lucknow police commissionerate and District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), PRVs were flagged off from the Lucknow district court premises.