*Reporting on 9 th October 25 (Court No 4) proceedings on Fedn CA 3467 of 2024*
As scheduled, the Court No 4 took up the Misc matters today at 10.30 and closed at 10.50 am. Thereafter Sanjay Hegde of AIIPA resumed his arguments and concluded at 11.20am. Then our Sr Advocate, Barrister V.Ramakrishnan, started his arguements and continued upto 12.15 PM , when the bench rose for the day .
Initiating the arguements, our Sr Counsel started with formation of pension rules, its eligibility to employees, pension fixation, cost index neutralisation to protect real value of pension. He explained various modes of neutralisations and its differential effects on Pensioners. While on this, he submitted pension rule book to the bench and started explaining how Govt erred in not approving the LIC's 2001 Board Resolution, wrong implementation of Rule 3, 3A(obsolete as per Govt clarification submitted to the bench), 3B causing various groups of Pensioners in each cadre. When he referred to the three HC judgements, SC judgement of 31.3.3016 and DHC judgement of 2017 etc, the bench wanted a complete book of all judgements, their arguements etc to be submitted by our AOR before 27.10.25 to resume next hearing on 29.10.2025,to which our counsel agreed.
Initially it was complex to realise the spirit of arguments made, but our Counsel land on the solid ground of the demand of *Pension Upgradation* . on which he will resume arguements on 29 th October'25 when the Court resumes the hearing .
While concluding, we can hope for the best.
SK Awasthi,
Camp New Delhi
9 October 2025.
