The IAs filed by Sh. Asthana have been dismissed by Supreme Court on 15th instant.
While it will be fair to appreciate the tenacity with which the contempt issue was fought, one would wish that the pensioners had not been made to wait so long as they had to live on hopes generated by certain persons who assumed the role of cheerleaders for him during the past long three years.
The approach was evidently unproductive as expressed by me repeatedly, though it earned displeasure from certain quarters.
SLPs through, rather than hanging on to a sticky issue through repeat petitions, withdrawals
etc.besides watching the matter being tossed up between Supreme Court and High Court.
Pensioners, we still feel, would have got atleast one issue of DR sorted
out much earlier and could have pursued the tougher issue of Revision
of Pension through a different route strategically rather than relying
on Judiciary alone.