C.H.MAHADEVAN,
Flat # 101, LAXMI NIVAS,8-2-293/K/13,Plot # 13 EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR(IT/BPR)(Retd)(LIC)
Phase III, Kamalapuri
Colony,
Hyderabad, 500073
Phone No: 040 23550520
Mobile No: 9849314013
E Mail: chmahadevan@gmail.com
4/12/2016
Shri V K Sharma
Chairman in charge and Managing Director,
LIC of India,
Mumbai
Dear Sir,
Re:Request to
implement MC Jain case judgment to all
similarly placed pensioners
At the outset ,kindly accept my grateful thanks
for providing appointment to me & Mr M Sreenivasa Murty on 27/10/2016 for your patient hearing of our
representation on a number of
issues faced by pensioners. As
suggested by you, Mr M Sreenivasa Murty also met Executive Director (Personnel)
on 28/11/2016 and discussed the issues with him including that relating to the
implementation of the judgment in
respect of M C Jain case to the
similarly placed pensioners.
In this context, I wish to refer to the
Hon’ble Prime Minister’s address on 31/10/2016 at the 50th
Anniversary of the Establishment of the High Court of Delhi at Vigyan
Bhavan,New Delhi.I am sure you would have already gone through the same. The
same is attached for your ready reference.
In the said address, the Hon’ble Prime Minister has highlighted the
fault in the prevailing ‘system’ referring to the case of a teacher who won his case in the court and got justice, but many others
similarly placed as he did not get the
same benefit. He strongly impressed upon rendering similar justice to such similarly
placed citizens.
The case is strikingly similar to and identical
with the M C Jain case of LIC in every respect where the SLP No 8090 of 2014 of
LIC was dismissed by the Supreme Court
on 2/7/2014 thereby upholding the
judgment dt 13/9/2012 of the Jaipur Bench of the Rajasthan High Court providing relief to Mr M C Jain.
There are about 120 similarly placed pensioners(including
family pensioners of deceased retires in the category) and all the living
retirees in this categories are octogenarians many of them severely sick and
some of them reported paralysed. They re left with no energy and
resources at this late stage in their life to
knock at the doors of the judiciary for getting justice in their cases. The
Hon’ble Prime Minister’s noble sentiments as conveyed in his address will lose
their credibility if premier public sector financial institutions like LIC do
not translate his utterances into concrete action. I am sure you will
appreciate that implementing the M C Jain case judgment to similarly placed
pensioners is a test case in this regard. Considering the age and health
profile of this category of pensioners, the implementation of the judgment in
respect of similarly placed pensioners is also an issue of human rights as
would be appreciated.
We shall be grateful for your positive intervention
to help this category of suffering pensioners.
Thanking you in anticipation,
Yours faithfully,
C H Mahadevan
Encl: copy of the text of the Hon’ble PM’s
address