TO,
Members of AIRIEF
Through
President / General Secretaries of Divisional
Assns & Office bearers of AIRIEF
As scheduled, our case was to be taken up in
Supreme Court today. M/s. KML Asthana & Trilochan Singh from Jaipur,
S.S. Saxena & Pramod Bhatnagar from Bhopal. T.V.David John and
G.Krishnaswamy from Bangaluru came. From Delhi Shri. AV Tyagi & DD Gupta
were already there.
We had discussions with Shri. Nidhesh Gupta, Sr. Advocate
& Shri. R.K. Singh Advocate previous evening Based on our deliberations
amongst ourselves, we had decided that as the payment of 20% of amount due to
the pensioners as per order of the Supreme Court dt. 07.05.2015 &
07.09.2015 has not been paid to all pensioners, we should press for final
decision in the case, thereby securing 100% to all pensioners. The Corporation
did not pay interim relief to one & all. Chandigarh petitioners wanted 20%
of both pension & DR which could not be decided and hence no payment has
been made to them so far.
In view of above, we decided that instead of
harping on interim relief of 20%, we should insist for 100% i.e. the finality
of matter through Hon’ble Supreme Court.
Accordingly both the Advocates were given
briefing, so as to present our case in Supreme Court.
Chandigarh Petitioners still insisting for 20%
which would delay the legal proceedings & judgement.
Our Advocate Shri. R.K. Singh pleaded for final
decision to get 100% of amount due to us. No conflict or disagreement
with anybody was intended. We stand for pension updation & DR to all
eligible pensioners, no differentiation, with any pensioner. We understand that
20% of DR as calculated by LIC, has been paid to the petitioners of Jaipur
& 1300 petitioners spread over the country
Today the hearing was upto 1PM Our case could
not come up for hearing. There was brief exchange of views by various parties as
outlined above, and the case was adjourned to 30.09.2015.
Earlier on 22.09.2015, the Advocate for LIC,
Shri. Panigrahi approached our Advocate Shri. R.K. Singh. The former probably
approached Advocates of opposite parties too, Shri. Parngrahi informed that the
LIC had decided to engage Solicitor General as their Advocate who was not
available on 23.09.2015. LIC would therefore, seek adjournment on 23.09.2015.
The Advocate for LIC mentioned to the Hon’ble Judge for adjournment but he
advised to mention it when the case would come up for hearing on 23.09.2015.
This is how the things moved in Delhi.
We wish to reassure our members and well wishers
that AIRIEF is taking all steps to achieve our goal. Shri. Asthana and
our Advocates are seriously engaged in this exercise.
Please donot be swayed by attention - seekers
who are propagating and communicating to create confusion. Have faith in
Almighty and contribute liberally to legal Fund. In case of doubt, please do not
hesitate to talk to us on phone to know correct position.
With greetings
S.S. Saxena
Pramod Bhatnagar
President
Jt. Secretary
