Dear Mr Kishore,
If they have decided to pay the interim, it means that LIC is clear on what they wish to pay (note, not what they need to pay!) to the beneficiaries as per the SC interim order. But I fail to understand the need for seeking a clarification in respect of Delhi HC petitioners from SC.
The Class I Federation is the petitioner and if at all, LIC should ask the Federation who are their member- beneficiaries. In that case they have to pay to post-July 1997 beneficiaries also and they have to necessarily pay upgraded pension arrears. On this logic,if they pay to Jaipur & Chandigarh petitioners restricting to only pre-August 1997 retirees and restricting the payment only the paltry and inadequate amount as deposits in the HC registries, they will be committing contempt of Supreme Court as they will not be obeying the SC interim order of 7th May 2015 which clearly indicated that the ad interim relief is payable to respondent-employees at 20% of the amounts due as per impugned High Court judgments.
It would have been understandable if LIC had sought clarification on the amounts payable as per the impugned HC judgments in the process of which the clarity on beneficiaries to whom they should pay will also emerge.
Kind regards.
C H Mahadevan