GURCHARAN SINGH SIDHU Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) By this judgment, various civil writ petitions details whereof have been given on the heading of the judgment shall stand disposed of.

(2.) All these writ petitions have been filed by the retired employees of various Nationalized Banks who have retired before 01.11.2002. On 01.12.2020, with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties it was decided to treat CWP 31321-2019 (Gurcharan Singh Vs. Punjab & Sindh Bank) as a lead case and Learned counsels representing the parties in all the writ petitions were permitted to file their comprehensive pleadings. Hence, the facts are being noticed from CWP-31321-2019 (Gurucharan Singh Sidhu vs. UOI).

(3.) The writ petition has been contested by the Bank while taking various objections including the fact that the writ petition is liable to be dismissed in view of a detailed judgment passed by the Hon ble Supreme Court in United Bank of India and others vs. United Bank of India Retirees Welfare Association and others , 2018 16 SCC 539. It is also pleaded that the letter issued by Indian Bank Association on 28.06.2005 is on the basis of a joint note dated 02.06.2005 which was signed on the same day when 8th bipartite settlement was signed, i.e. on 02.06.2005.