District Legal Services Authority, Cuttack

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DISTRICT LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITY, CUTTACK

About us

The DLSA Cuttack is functioning at district and Session Judge Court Cuttack premises. The Hon’ble District and Session Judge, Cuttack is the Chairperson of this Authority and a judicial Officer in the Cadre of senior civil Judge is the Secretary of this station. Seven number of Taluk Legal Services Committees namely Athagarh, Banki, Baramba, Narsinghpur, Niali, Salipur & Tigiria are functioning under this Authority. There is a panel of 51 Nos of Panel Lawyer are empanelled under DLSA Cuttack including TLSCs. They are providing quality based Legal Services to the marginalised section of the society. There is also a Panel of 127 Nos of Para Legal Volunteers under DLSA Cuttack including TLSCs. They are very active as well as motivated by humanitarian work. They provide help to the needy and poor people in getting Medical treatment, issuance of Ration Card ,Labour Card ,etc..

Chairperson
Shri Manas Ranjan Barik, Hon’ble District Judge, Cuttack
Email- dj[dot]cuttack-od[at]gov[dot]in

Secretary
Shri Jagdish Chandra Jena, OJS
Email- dlsacuttack[at]gmail[dot]com

Objectives

Article 39-A of the Constitution of India provides that the State shall secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice on the basis of equal opportunity, and shall, in particular, provide free legal aid, by suitable legislation or schemes or in any other way, to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities. On the basis of Article 39-A of Constitution the Legal Services Authorities have constituted for the purpose of provide free and competent legal services to the weaker section of the society to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities, and to organize Lok Adalaths to secure that the operation of the legal system promotes justice on a basic of equal opportunity

Work Force

Panel Lawyers-Panel Lawyer” means a lawyer selected under Regulation 8 of the National Legal Services Authority (Fee and Competent Legal Services) Regulation, 2010 to render free and competent legal services to the deserving the needy persons under the scheme.
Panel Lawyers List of DLSA,Cuttack

Para Legal Volunteers-Para-Legal Volunteer shall educate people, especially those belonging to weaker sections of the society, to enable them to be aware of their right to live with human dignity, to enjoy all the constitutionally and statutorily guaranteed rights as also the duties and discharge of obligations as per law.
Para Legal Volunteers for Cuttack District

Legal Aid Defence Counsel System-It will provide free legal assistance to the accused in custody and the defendants in criminal cases in line with the public defence system. It would come to the rescue of the needy, for and distressed persons in the State.
Legal Aid Defense Counsels Details

Persons Who are Entitled to get Free Legal Aid Benefits

A member of a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe
A victim of trafficking in human being or beggar as referred to in article 23 of the Constitution
A Woman or Child
A mentally ill or otherwise disabled person
A person under circumstances of undeserved want such as being a victim of a mass disaster, ethnic violence, caste atrocity, flood, drought, earthquake/or industrial disaster
An industrial workman
In custody, including cusody in aprotective home within the meaning of clause (g) of secton 2 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 or in a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home with in the meaning of clause(g) of section 2 of the Mental Health Act, 1987
A person whose yearly income is less than Rs . 25,000/- if the case is before a court other than Supreme Court and less than Rs 50,000/-. if the case is before the Supreme Court