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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:142817 Court No. - 5 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 10371 of 2025 Petitioner :- Shrawan Kumar Pal Respondent :- Union Of India And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ravi Jha,Rishabh Agarwal,Sharadey Mishra Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I.,Siddharth Singhal Hon'ble Saurabh Shyam Shamshery,J.
1. Petitioner before this Court was an employee of L.I.C. Later on, he was selected on the post of Block Education Officer and he has joined at said post on
13.12.2021.
2. He has approached this Court that earlier employer i.e. L.I.C. has not provided N.O.C. which is required for his service details.
3. Sri Rishabh Agarwal, learned counsel for petitioner refers paragraph 25 and 26 of this writ petition that he is ready to give an undertaking as well as indemnity bond in case of any recovery.
4. Sri Manish Goyal, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Ms. Divya Chaurasia, learned counsel appearing on behalf of respondent-LIC submits that since present writ petition and a writ petition is also pending before Division Bench of this Court, therefore, NOC was not granted and petitioner has not approached before Division Bench with such prayer.
5. Learned Senior Advocate for respondent-LIC further submits that today, Writ A No. 6802/2018 which was filed by other petitioners including petitioner has been withdrawn on behalf of present petitioner and interim
order passed therein would not be applicable as it has been vacated, therefore, instead of indemnity bond, petitioner should deposit a draft of Rs. 4,50,000/- equal to amount of recovery.
6. Learned counsel for petitioner has not objected aforesaid submission and, on instructions, submits that petitioner is ready to deposit aforesaid amount,
however, an observation be made that this amount will be subject matter of any legal recourse, if adopted by petitioner.
7. In aforesaid circumstances and taking note of above
submissions, this writ petition is disposed of with an observation that petitioner will deposit a draft of Rs. 4,50,000/- in favour of Life Insurance Corporation of India within 4 weeks from today and thereafter, concerned respondent-LIC will issue NOC to the petitioner. The amount will be subject to any legal remedy available to petitioner and taken within a period of six months from today.
Order Date :- 20.8.2025 N. Sinha Digitally signed by :- NIRMAL SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad