M Sreenivasa Murty Sept 15, 2016
Dear Pensioner Colleagues,
Sept 27 is not far. On that day the
Delhi High Court, would hopefully release its time table to draw the curtains on our epic
battle to be continued to be fought merrily in the next four months.
About Forty Pensioners and Family
Pensioners (from the Hyderabad Division alone – Secunderabad is separate) moved to
their heavenly abodes during the last two years. Similar would be the trend elsewhere
in the Country. Hyderabad’s Counsel has been instructed to highlight this
disturbing aspect before the Bench, for what it is worth.
Sri C H Mahadevan’s literally
non-stop research all these weeks as part of Hyderabad Team’s efforts to collect and
collate incontrovertible data to plead our case, is assuring us of amazing scope to put LIC &
GOI ‘in their place’ before the Bench and beat them squarely at the hustings. We have
arrived at a broad understanding on a convenientM‘division of work’ plan (to ensure
better focus) between the Counsel and us as also among ourselves. Unfortunately it (the
division of work/labour) had to remain limited to our Counsel and us and among ourselves
only while such a division of work and pooling of thoughts among all Petitioners,
remains a pipedream.
I am proceeding to Delhi tomorrow
for some brain storming sessions with our Counsel spread over the next three days and
to finalize and file our Rejoinder to LIC’s Counter Affidavit dated 01/08/2016 filed in
our WP No 4894 of 2016. Ideally Sri Mahadevan should join the conferences at this point
of time but he chose to attend to the entire ‘back office work’ and be on hotline for
consultations, as always. Obviously, due to budgetary constraints.
This trip was deliberately deferred
to now from last week hoping to be served in the meantime with the UoI’s Reply
Affidavit also, so that we can file our Rejoinder to that too and be ready to face the Court on
27th Sept. But that was not to be, till today. UoI chose to file its Reply in WP No 5903
(AIRIEF) and as per unconfirmed third party source in 184/2007 (GNS Federation) also and
NONE OTHER. Why so, remains an answered question. An enquiry caused by the
Associate of the Chandigarh Counsel through her
Munshi, yielded some arrogant
response. We left it there knowing that we are dealing with a Respondent who is a Sovereign
Authority with unfettered access to the Consolidated Fund of India even for
payment to its Pensioners.
So this is our Status (quo) Report
for now unless something more happens in the next couple of days.
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