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Thursday, February 23, 2012

THAT'S OUR RIGHT TO INFORMATION....



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Let us try to magnify a portion of information flowing to us concerning the legal battle being waged in High Court of Rajasthan and now in the Supreme Court of India.  We are all aware that the Supreme Court has ordered that the amount due to the "employees" should be deposited with the court.

The implication of this court order, as was originally understood by all of us, was that amount payable to all pensioners would be calculated and deposited with the Court by the Life Insurance Corporation of India.  To some extent we, the pensioners, were therefore jubilant.  The order gave us a sense of pride and satisfaction as we probably thought that we were slowly but surely winning the case. 

But now look at the way information is passed on to the pensioners.  While we are being told that the cases pending in various courts would be taken up for consideration on various dates, there is probably an attempt on the part of those conducting the case to withhold vital information from the pensioners. Nobody has so far come out with the information as to the exact quantum of amount deposited in the Court. 

The apprehension of an average pensioner is that the Life Insurance Corporation has deposited with the Court only the amount due to the petitioners.  If that is the truth, why we are not being told the TRUTH?  It appears rather strange.

This note is being placed here only to magnify a particular aspect of the court case!