Five Days to
go
MY VIEW - POST NO 7.
Dear Editor,
Mr Bhaktavatsala Rao’s
apprehensions are not unfounded, going by our bitter experience
on adjournments. But Mr Rao can remain hopeful that our cases will be ‘called’
on 7th May (which will be confirmed tonight when the Final Weekly
Cause List will be uploaded). Krishna Water sharing cases being heard by
Justice Deepak Misra, should not disturb the published schedule of 7th
May.
Continuing to explain my
humble ‘Views’ on our case-strategy per se, my appeal to the concerned is
basically to desist from any move that has the potential to push the hearing
beyond summer vacation. It also has a
bearing on the wider implications of the eventual outcome itself.
Assuming that any of the
Pensioner groups (it can only be Jaipur, that too theoretically) succeeds in
getting the CAs/SLPS dismissed as not maintainable, the Bench would not go in
to merits of the Appeals. It would even say so. What is the impact on
Pensioners’ interests if such a thing happens? The clock of justice gets re-set to 12.01.2010. We got the LIC’s
Appeals & UoI’s SLPs dismissed – but we have nothing to gain. LIC would
merrily play with its own interpretation of the Board Resolution. DR Anomaly
for pre-97 retirees would be set right PARTIALLY. Pension Revision on par with Government
pension Rules, remains a mirage.
So
Let’s Try on May 7 for Something Better.
M.Sreenivasa Murty