Federation of Retired LIC Class I Officers' Associations
Ecircular DK-44 11th Oct. 2018
Friends,
Sub: Today's hearing in the supreme court
The much awaited Oct 11th, in SC has virtually drawn a blank! At 11 am I received a call from Sri G N Sridharan to say the Hearing on our case, for the day, was over! LIC's Compliance Report on the Arrears Payment, had itself owned up some lack of completeness and sought 8 week's time to complete it. Since in today's Hearing the merits ,on the defects in Arrears Payment, was not gone into, I am afraid, even in the next Hearing, the SC may have to adjudicate on complaints from our side vis-a-vis the ones LIC has owned up and processed on its own.
This is not at all a happy turn of events as far as our main issues in the SLP are concerned. And with Sri Madan Lokur, Retiring from end of Dec (virtually from mid Dec as the vacation from 17th Dec will go right up to the end of Dec), if our case does not see completion by then, we may face yet another uncertainty of a re-constituted Bench and more time to go with it. What cannot be cured has to be endured. And here is the brief Report fromShri G N Sridharan, the Chairman Legal Committee on today's Hearing in Court:
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Our legal team met our counsels yesterday and briefed them on the defects in implementing the Delhi HC order.
Just earlier in the day LIC filed a 'compliance affidavit' claiming that they had paid about Rs. 23 cr. to 3680 pensioners as per Delhi HC order. They had also pleaded that certain directions of the Delhi HC would take time for implementation and as such about 8 week's further time was needed.
The case was called as scheduled to day. Our Sr counsel drew the attention of the court, to LiC's shoddy implementation of the Delhi order. The Sr. counsel appearing for LIC repeated the plea for further .Our SR counsel pointed out that Delhi HC itself had granted 9 +3 months time already and 2 months time from SC and still they are asking for further time .The court then granted SIX weeks time to LIC to rectify the defects .We may therefore expect the matter to be listed only after 20th of next month.
The fallout of today's happening is that according to their own affidavit, some more old pensioners should come under the net of eligibility, for some arrears during the 6 week time allowed by the court
.- GNSRIDHARAN
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D.Krishnan,
General Secretary
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