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2025 Supreme(Del) 792

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
UNION OF INDIA & ORS. – Appellant
Versus
EX SUB GAWAS ANIL MADSO – Respondent


JUDGMENT :

C. HARI SHANKAR, J.

WP (C) 3545/2025 [UOI v Ex Sub Gawas Anil Madso]

1. President John F. Kennedy’s stirring words during his inaugural address represent, to this day, the grand summation of everything that patriotism, and love for one’s nation, means and represents:

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask for what you can do for your country.”

2. There are those of us who eulogize and revere these words, but stop there. Then there are those who make it part of their lives, and are willing to sacrifice their all for their country – who, while we sip our hot cappuccinos by the fireplace, are braving icy winds at the border, willing to lay down their lives at a moment’s notice. Can anything, that the nation, and we as its citizens, give to these true sons of the motherland, ever be too much?

3. And yet, the human body is made of skin, bone, and sinew, and it is not always that the body can keep pace with the spirit. Defending the country, and its countrymen, rarely provides, to the body of the defender, a feeling of comfort, and the conditions in which our defenders defend us are often harsh and inhospitable. The stresses and strains of military life, physical, mental and


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