Justice delayed is justice denied. Here is a classic case where justice is delivered but execution is delayed.
LIC revised
the pay scale for in-house employees on 1-8-1997 with retrospective effect
from 1-8-1992. There were few pensioners who were in service on 1-8-1992 but
were denied the pay revision as 1-4-1993 was the cut off date which was
arbitrarily fixed by LIC for Class 1 officers whereas it was 1-8-1992 for Class
3 and 4 for eligibility.
Inspite of the
fact LIC lost their case in SB writ petition NO
1454/2009 dated 13-9-2012
of MC Jain Vs LIC in the Jaipur HC and they lost their
appeal also as the DB judgment in the appeal ruled that “the appeal being
devoid of merit is hereby dismissed. Consequent upon dismissal of special
appeal, stay application filed therein does not survive and same is also
dismissed. The petitioner has now been declared entitled for revised pay scales
as per notification dated 18-7-1996 with consequential benefits.“
LIC is now
hibernating on this clear judgment and in the meanwhile some pensioners who
were beneficiaries in terms of the judgment left the world and one such
unfortunate pensioner was Shri
Kodandapani in SOUTH ZONE who was suffering from paralysis and was hopeful of
receiving the benefits to tide over the medical expenses.
The total
number of pensioners to benefit if the court order is implemented may be around
one hundred who are in the sun set of their life and living with borrowed time.
Why then is this delay and inhuman attitude and what happened to the declared
National litigation policy ?