JUSTICE DELAYED, DELAYED, DELAYED AND DELAYED

JUSTICE DELAYED, DELAYED, DELAYED AND DELAYED.........

19/04

Com. R L Kapoor, Legal Committee Member reports from New Delhi:

The Pension Anomaly case was listed as Item No 60 before the Principal bench of CAT today.

The Bench heard cases up to 13.30 hours. But, our Case did not come up before that time.

The case is simply postponed to next date of 20-5-2016,

In 1985, when the CAT was established it was said:

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The Hon'ble Chief Justice of India, Hon'ble Judges of the Supreme Court as well as the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India and Hon'ble Minister of Law had expressed their anguish on many occasions about the delay in deciding cases pending in Courts. We are glad to say that the experience and trend in the Central Administrative Tribunal is otherwise. On the occasion of the opening of the new building of the Principal Bench of the Tribunal, some features of the dispensation of justice in the Tribunal are highlighted. With a view to easing the congestion of pending cases in various High Courts and other Courts in the country, Parliament had enacted the Adminisitrative Tribunals Act, 1985 which came into force in July, 1985 and the Administrative Tribunals were established in November, 1985 at Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Allahabad. Today, there are 17 Benches of the Tribunal located throughout the country wherever the seat of a High Court is located, with 33 Division Benches. In addition, circuit sittings are held at Nagpur, Goa, Aurangabad, Jammu, Shimla, Indore, Gwalior, Bilaspur, Ranchi, Pondicherry, Gangtok, Port Blair, Shillong, Agartala, Kohima, Imphal, Itanagar, Aizwal and Nainital.

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BUT, WHAT IS OUR EXPERIENCE WITH CAT? MOST DISAPPOINTING. MOST DISGUSTING.

HOW LONG THE OLD PENSIONERS SHOULD WAIT BEFORE THE CAT TO HEAR THE CASE FIXED SEVERAL TIMES?