IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision :10.11.2025 Union of India and others … Petitioners Versus Ex. Sep Baldev Singh & another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKAS SURI Present: Mr. Rohit Verma, Senior Panel Counsel for petitoners-UOI.

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Harsimran Singh Sethi, J. (Oral)

1. In the present petition, the challenge is to the impugned order dated 03.12.2024 (Annexure P-1) passed by respondent No. 2-Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench, Chandigarh (for short, ‘the Tribunal’) by which, respondent No.1 has been allowed the benefit of invalid pension in respect of the services rendered by him from 30.03.1979 to 26.07.1981.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioners places reliance upon the report of medical examination of respondent No. 1 to hold that though the disability of ‘Neurosis’ for two years @ 20% has been found in respondent No.1, but the same has been treated ‘neither attributable to Military Service nor aggravated by the Military service’ hence, the grant of benefit of invalid pension to respondent No. 1 by the Tribunal is incorrect.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners further submits that once