YESTERDAY, THE COURT DID NOT HAVE THE TIME OBVIOUSLY FOR THE
REASON THAT IT WAS BUSY IN CONDOLENCE MEETING AT THE BEGINNING AND WHEN IT SAT
THE CASE NOS. 1 AND 2 WERE FINISHED. SINCE THE SECOND JUDGE SITTING WITH
JUSTICE MISHRA, JUSTICE SHRI SHIV KIRAT SINGH WAS TO PARTICIPATE IN
CONSTITUTION BENCH, THE BENCH DID NOT FORM. HOWEVER JUSTICE BHANUMATI
FULFILLED THE CORAM AND THE BENCH TOOK UP OUR CASE NUMBER THREE. RIGHT IN THE
BEGINNING LIC'S COUNSEL SAID THAT IT MAY TAKE SOMETIME TO COMPLETE THE ARGUMENTS
WHICH ARE NOT LIKELY TO BE COMPLETED TODAY IT IS BETTER THAT IT IS TAKEN UP
JUST IN THE BEGINNING. ON THIS JUSTICE MISHRA SAID ALREADY LONG TIME HAS PASSED
AND THE CASE IS OF PENSIONERS ,HE DOES NOT WANT ANY FURTHER TIME TO BE SPENT
AND HE WANTS TO DECIDE TODAY ITSELF,
BUT BEFORE HE COULD FINISH MR MURTY'S ADVOCATE ROSE UP AND
SAID ABOUT 20% WHICH ANNOYED THE JUDGE AND SAID THAT ON THE LAST DATE ALSO HE
SAID THAT THIS ORDER WAS PASSED IN A HURRY THE 100% WAS NOT KNOWN THEREFORE LET
US FIRST DECIDE 100%. BUT THIS DID NOT SUIT THE MIND SINCE HE IS BENT UPON
SOMEHOW HIJACKING THE PROCEEDINGS, THEN HE REFERRED TO HIS LAST HEARINGS
SUGGESTIONS OF CONTEMPT PETITION IF THE SAID LITIGANT SO FEELS WHAT DID HE DO.
THERE WAS NO REPLY.
LIC'S ADVOCATE SAID THAT IT IS ONLY THOSE PETITIONERS
THAT THE PAYMENT COULD NOT BE MADE TO THEM SINCE EVERY TIME THEY CAUSED HURDLES
IN WITHDRAWING THE AMOUNT. THEN THE JUDGE ASKED WHETHER PAYMENT HAS BEEN MADE
IN RAJASTHAN. OUR SR ADVOCATE SAID THAT SOME PAYMENT HAS BEEN MADE BUT NOT ACCORDING
TO DIRECTIONS, STILL AT THE MOMENT WE WANT DECISION ON 100% AND NOT 20% WHICH
IS ALSO NOT CALCULABLE AT THE MOMENT IN ABSENCE OF KNOWING WHAT IS 100%.
THEREFORE, IN AN IRRITATING MOOD THE COURT PASSED OVER THE CASE AND AT ABOUT
3.15 IT ROSE UP. SINCE IT IS A PASS OVER IT WILL COME UP AT NUMBER ONE THE NEXT
WEDNESSDAY WHICH CALLS ON THE COURT WORKING ON 30TH SINCE THE MIDDLE WEDNESDAY
IS ON HOLI HOLIDAY.
NOW THE GROUP OF FOUR IS TRYING TO JUSTIFY THEIR STAND OF
20% TO BE IN FAVOUR OF THE PENSIONERS WHILE THEY HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD THE ORDER
OF 7TH MAY 2015, OTHERWISE SUCH A SITUATION MAY NOT ARISE. IT IS FIRST TO
BE UNDERSTOOD AS TO WHAT IS 20% UNLESS 100% IS DECIDED AND WHEN THE COURT IS
SAYING THAT IT IS SITTING FOR DECISION 100% WITHOUT FURTHER ADJOURNMENT SINCE A
LONG TIME HAS ALEADY ELAPSED ON ACCOUNT OF ADJOURNMENTS THE COURT DOES NOT WANT
ANY FURTHER DELAY AND THE ADVOCATES FOR THE RESPONDENTS ARE ALSO INSISTING THIS
GROUP OF PERSONS SHOULD HAVE KEPT QUIET. IF THEY ARE SO SINCERE THEN THEY SHOULD
HAVE FILED THE CONTEMPT PETITION AS THE COURT SUGGESTED ON 10TH WHICH THEY DID
NOT DO. WHY? NO EXPLANATION. EVEN THE CONTENTS OF THE ORDER OF 7TH
MAY ARE MISSING FROM THEM AND THEY ARE UNABLE TO EXPLAIN THEIR STRESS ON
20% WITHOUT FIRST ASCERTAINING THE 100%. THEIR STRATEGY IS SOMEHOW OR THE OTHER
TO DELAY THE DECISION OF THE CASE. THE PENSIONERS WHO ARE WISE PERSONS MUST
UNDERSTAND THE BACKGROUND INTENTS OF THIS FALSE AND VEXATIOUS PLEA AS HAS BEEN
RENDERED NOW AND BY NO MEANS IT CAN BE SAID TO BE IN FAVOUR OF THE PENSIONERS.
PL THINK CAN THERE BE 20% AT ALL WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT IS 100%.
---Asthana