Who can forget Mr Asthana' initiating the legal fight in 1998? And who can forget the fiasco suffered at Jaipur on 14/02/2014 when he withdrew the Contempt Petition and repeatedly denied the fact of his withdrawal.No doubt he was successful till the time the Review Petition of LIC was dismissed by the Division Bench at Jaipur on 21/1/2011,but not beyond that.The whole lot of pensioners rallied behind Mr Asthana even going to the extent of sending liberal contributions to the personal Bank account of Mr Asthana.The pensioner friends however had no transparent information on how the case was being managed.But after the cases were remitted to DHC on 31/3/2016,there was more transparency on how the cases proceeded at Delhi HC.
Mr Asthana claims that his case was referred to DHC.But he must remember two other cases were also referred to DHC along with his WP.So he cannot claim proprietary rights to the case when other cases are tagged with his.And then,how active was Mr Asthana in the DHC proceedings?It is for the pensioners to judge.
On the formation of Legal Committee,does Mr Asthana think that he is larger than a group of legally qualified individuals?
Let not Mr Asthana bask in the glory of the Jaipur judgment which is now history.What matters now is how the six SLPs are going to be decided in the Supreme Court.
As regards the repercussions of his withdrawal from the legal fight,let not Mr Asthana be under the illusion that there will be end of the world.There are five other SLP petitioners ,who can take care of the interest of their constituents.If Mr Asthana drops out,no doubt it will be a tragedy (not for the pensioners),but if the case had been allowed to be fought alone by him,it would have carried the risk of a certain calamity for pensioners at large.If by God's Grace,we succeed at the Apex Court,Mr Asthana also will be assured of the benefit even if he drops out.
It is true that I have nothing to do with his case, but the mails that I have been receiving from Mr H K Aggarwal forwarding Mr Asthana's posts had to be responded to by me.But let me remind Mr Asthana that I have been a Life member of AIRIEF even before becoming a member of another Association.
C H Mahadevan
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