(Reading our Para 4 and 5) - The govt expressly said that 24(2) does not apply in this case. The question is where was the occasion to pay ?

J. Bhat - Govt. wasn’t obliged to pay.

SD - My understanding is that if this judgement was reversed, then the award would have come and then the issue would have come that if this was five years earlier, then there could have been a reversal.