IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Decided on : 22.12.2025 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS . .Petitioners Versus BHATERI DEVI (SINCE DECEASED ) THROUGH HER LRS AND ANR . . . Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKAS SURI PRESENT: Mr. Karan Kumar Jund, Senior Panel Counsel for the petitioners.

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HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI , J. (Oral)

1. In the present petition, the challenge is to the impugned order dated 10.02.2021 (Annexure P-1) passed by respondent No.2-Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench, Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as ‘Tribunal’) by which, it has been held that the death of the husband of respondent No.1, who died due to heart attack on 24.08.1986 was aggravated by the military service, on which ground respondent No. 1 has been held to be entitled for grant of special Family Pension.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioners argues that though, the husband of respondent No.1 was enrolled in the Army on 19.10.1965 and had served upto the date of his death i.e. 24.08.1986 but as he died of heart attack while he was availing annual leave, the death of husband of respondent No.1 could not have been treated as having been aggra