At Supreme Court, SLP filed by LIC remains incomplete; no attempt from LIC side to mend defects.

I am hesitant to repeatedly write on this subject but I am compelled to as normally the SLP applicant will be eager to get the SLP No.so that the proceedings start expeditiously but LIC is not interested and have filed a defective SLP deliberately as it is the common procedure to submit an affidavit asserting that the deponent is well aware of the facts of the case etc. This elementary requirement is known to every advocate of any level practicing in SC. and it is not that the LIC advocates are not aware. They have filed the SLP for records only it appears. The course open to us is:

1.Approach the SC Registry to prepare a note to the bench that gave them an opportunity to file a fresh appeal about the defect not being rectified for nearly 3 weeks.

2.When the SLP hearing, if starts, plead that the LIC has not come to file the fresh SLP with clean hands and hence the delay appealed for condonation must not be granted.

When the stock market was down & out FIIs dumped 1120 crores worth of shares and the LIC picked them up to save embarrassment to UOI but the same LIC is not coming forward to save its own dying pensioners. .What travesty of truth.

T SAMPATH IYENGAR, BANGALORE

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