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- Dozens of petitions of pensioners of banks ( RBI, SBI, Canara, BoB, etc.), Life Insurance Corporation of India and Central Government filed in Ahmedabad, Bombay, Chennai, Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana & Chandigarh etc. High Courts and in the Supreme Court are pending for long and some petitions for more than ten years.
A few months back, the Supreme Court dismissed the Curative petition filed by GOI against the CAT judgement on payment of arrears to the pre- 2006 pensioners from 01--01-2006. But,alas, in a recent development in August 2014 , in its wisdom, the Ministry of Law, GOI has advised the Department of Pension to implement the Apex Court order qua petitioners : to pay arrears from 01-01-2006 only to few petitioners who had approached CAT/filed the cases. The advice of the Ministry of Law, which is in utter disregard to other similarly placed pre 2006 affected pensioners, is illogical and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India.
It is rather possible that the Legal Pandits of GOI and LIC had prevailed for depositing in the High Cours, the ' amount due' to qua petitioners. This is blatant adamancy of the Legal Pandits of GOI and LIC to throttle the Constitutional Provisions. All the LIC pensioners should get 100% DR and periodic updating of pension.
The VII th CPC may be requested to reiterate the Vth CPC recommendations as aforesaid and the GOI should in all earnest accept them. It would surely go a long way toward Indian-legal system / jurisprudence and help avoid criminal waste of valuable time of the already overburdened Courts, loss of money and harassment suffered by the pensioners.
It is rather possible that the Legal Pandits of GOI and LIC had prevailed for depositing in the High Cours, the ' amount due' to qua petitioners. This is blatant adamancy of the Legal Pandits of GOI and LIC to throttle the Constitutional Provisions. All the LIC pensioners should get 100% DR and periodic updating of pension.
The VII th CPC may be requested to reiterate the Vth CPC recommendations as aforesaid and the GOI should in all earnest accept them. It would surely go a long way toward Indian-legal system / jurisprudence and help avoid criminal waste of valuable time of the already overburdened Courts, loss of money and harassment suffered by the pensioners.
SN ( a 1992 pensioner )
( From Sources )
( From Sources )