IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision : 08.12.2025 Union of India and others ... Petitioners Versus No. 15628068 Ex. Rect. Noopwinder Singh and another ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKAS SURI Present: Mr.Sushant Kareer, Senior Panel Counsel, for the petitioners-UOI.

HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI J. (ORAL)

1. In the present petition, the challenge is to the impugned order dated 03.07.2023 (Annexure P-1) passed by respondent No.2-Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench, Chandigarh at Chandimandir (for short, ‘Tribunal’) by which, respondent No.1 has been allowed the benefit of invalid pension in respect of the services rendered by him from 24.12.2015 to 17.07.2017.

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 ‘Severe Depressive Episode with Psychotic Symptoms’ has been found in respondent No.1, but the said disability has been held to be ‘neither attributable to nor aggravated by the Military service’. Hence, the grant of benefit of invalid pension to respondent No.1 by the Tribunal, is incorrect. 3. Lea