TESTING TIMES FOR LIC PENSIONERS - LET US BE PROACTIVE IN PLANNING AND ACTING‏

Dear Editor,

Unlike on some earlier occasions, this time around (22nd & 23rd April) we missed out a possible serious hearing of our cases in Supreme Court for no fault of ours. All of us therefore took the adverse development in its stride.

I am looking forward to Friday the 24th April to open up yet another valuable opportunity for all the Pensioner groups' representatives to TRY and take control of the situation. 

Apart from filing belated Appeals before the Apex Court which is nothing but abuse of the legal process and system, LIC & UoI have been sitting pretty without honoring the judgments. They made a mockery of the SC Order of 30 Sept 2013 which said among other things 'there shall be no stay' of the judgement challenged in Appeals. Respondents Counsel should be able to sensitize the Bench on this point which is in our favor in a purely legal sense.

That the Respondents in the matter consist of forty thousand Sr citizens who are in the late evening of their lives, may also be appropriately highlighted. Each adjournment and each week of the delay is making it 'too late' for many.

It requires OUR OWN COMMITMENT FIRST 

transforming in to the willing COOPERATION 

FROM OUR COUNSEL to play their expected role.

On behalf of Panchkula/Chandigarh Petitioners and on my own behalf I have Mr Jay Savla's strong support for the above approach. I hope and expect all other key players to chalk out their strategies suitably so as not to let things slip out of hands at a crucial juncture like now.

Thanks and regards,

M Sreenivasa Murty