IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Decided on : 29.01.2026 DAVINDER SINGH ...Petitioner.

Versus UNION OF INDIA AND ORS ….Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKAS SURI PRESENT: Mr. Manish Prabhakar, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Bharat Bhushan Sharma, Senior Panel counsel for the respondents-UOI.

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HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI , J. (Oral)

1. In the present petition, the challenge is to the impugned order dated 28.02.2014 (Annexure P-1) passed by Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench, Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as, ‘the Tribunal’) and order dated 31.07.2006 (Annexure P-2) and 12.11.2007 (Annexure P-3) passed by respondent No. 1, by which, the benefit of disability pension of the petitioner has been declined.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the benefit of disability pension has been declined to the petitioner only on the ground that the disability so suffered has been found to be neither attributable to nor aggravated by the military service. But, as per the instructions dated 16.07.2020, which have been made operative from 04.01.2019 issued by the Government of India, by which, invalid pension has b