Dear Mr Sahni
Referring to the post in your blog, by Mr H K Aggarwal, I hasten t clarify that when I expressed my hope of transiting from an era of interim relief to the era of permanent relief, I did not intend to advocate completely glossing over the fact of LIC playing the 'hide and seek ' game of doling out a pittance against the rightfully entitled amount of interim relief and also the act of denying the payment of the relief in rem to all the eligible pensioners besides to post July 1997 retirees.
Interim relief cannot be delinked fromits direct relationship with final relief that has already been ordered by the three HCs in their judgments which have been refused to be stayed by the Supreme Court. Of course the final relief that will be emerging from the Apex Court's judgment will be the finally binding one on LIC to be provided to the pensioners. So the successful transition from interim relief era to the permanent relief era will have to be through a seamless integration of our legal fight to expose LIC for what it has failed to do despite directions by the SC in the matter of payment of interim relief besides using all the resources at our disposal to obtain a favourable verdict from the Apex Court on or soon after 20th January 2016. Forgetting the inadequate, insensitive, selective and arbitrary approach of LIC in payment of interim relief is tantamount to giving a handle to LIC for being let off the hook after meting out injustice to pensioners. So the issue is bound to be raised before the Apex Court by the aggrieved parties. There is no place for 'forget and forgive' in our present legal struggle.
Greetings.Referring to the post in your blog, by Mr H K Aggarwal, I hasten t clarify that when I expressed my hope of transiting from an era of interim relief to the era of permanent relief, I did not intend to advocate completely glossing over the fact of LIC playing the 'hide and seek ' game of doling out a pittance against the rightfully entitled amount of interim relief and also the act of denying the payment of the relief in rem to all the eligible pensioners besides to post July 1997 retirees.
Interim relief cannot be delinked fromits direct relationship with final relief that has already been ordered by the three HCs in their judgments which have been refused to be stayed by the Supreme Court. Of course the final relief that will be emerging from the Apex Court's judgment will be the finally binding one on LIC to be provided to the pensioners. So the successful transition from interim relief era to the permanent relief era will have to be through a seamless integration of our legal fight to expose LIC for what it has failed to do despite directions by the SC in the matter of payment of interim relief besides using all the resources at our disposal to obtain a favourable verdict from the Apex Court on or soon after 20th January 2016. Forgetting the inadequate, insensitive, selective and arbitrary approach of LIC in payment of interim relief is tantamount to giving a handle to LIC for being let off the hook after meting out injustice to pensioners. So the issue is bound to be raised before the Apex Court by the aggrieved parties. There is no place for 'forget and forgive' in our present legal struggle.
C H Mahadevan
