Details of Court Proceedings on 16-04-2018 ... Hearing listed for Tuesday 24-7-2018

E circular No.DK/21                                       18-04-2018

 (MAY BE PUBLISHED  IN THE BLOGS PLEASE)

Friends,   

I have just returned after a fairly detailed meeting with Sri G N Sridharan and Sri M Arunachalam  who attended the S C Hearing on the 16th at Delhi. Though substantively nothing changes from the brief information that was passed on in our communication  DK/19 , some highlights of the proceedings could be gathered and I thought these may be of interest to our members. 

1.  The Hearing on 16th came up at around 12 noon, and our Federation was represented in the Court by our Advocate on Record, Sri Rajiv Garg and our Senior Counsel Sri Hansaria.

2. Sri K T S  Tulsi, the Senior Counsel for AIRIEF was also present representing his client , one of the six  Petitioners.

3. Our Senior Counsel,  made out some basic points which included:

    a. Interim Relief of 40% paid to Pre-97 Retirees, over 2 years ago, had just remained as a one-time payment, and had not been followed up by monthly payments based on the Interim Relief ---- also they had been defectively calculated.

     b.   Anomalies in Pension amount  between Retirees of post 97 , because of periodic Revisions to the in-service stream and no changes for the Retirees.

4. Sri Thulsi, Sr. Counsel for AIRIEF, spoke strongly of the ageing  group of Pensioners,  and the need  for speedy disposal of our matter.   He also submitted a written Note to the judges .

5. LIC's Counsel Sri Panigrahi, intervened to ask the Bench for two weeks time, which was opposed by our counsel. The Bench, though appeared to be in a mood to pass orders, but after mutual consultations, agreed for an adjournment to July, and later, the Court Record of Proceedings for the day, shows the listing of our case for 24th July.

6. Since the Court itself had listed the Hearing for Tuesday, the 24th of July 2018, the reasonable inference is that there would be no change in that date .

7. Another inference is that the Hearing, on a Tuesday, when no miscellaneous/ admission cases would come up, could go on for extended hours if it is needed.

8. Normally when admission of SLP is ordered by the Court, it will automatically get numbered as a civil case, and  would go through much delay in disposal finally. If at admission stage itself the arguments suggest completeness, it can also go in for final disposal without getting numbered as a civil case.

With Greetings and Best Wishes

D.Krishnan.                                                                                 GENERAL SECRETARY