IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP-9444-2026 (O&M)

Date of Decision :30.03.2026 Union of India and others … Petitioners Versus Ms. Kiran Kumari and another … Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA Present: Ms. Neha Sharma, Senior Panel Counsel, for the petitioners-UOI.

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HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI, J. (Oral)

1. In the present petition, challenge is to the impugned order dated 20.12.2024 (Annexure P-1) passed by respondent No.2-Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench Chandigarh (in short, ‘the Tribunal’) by which, the claim of respondent No.1 for grant of dependent family pension has been allowed.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that by the time application for grant of family pension was made, by the claimant, the parents of the respondent No.1 had already died and therefore, the claim of respondent No.1 for grant of family pension was not covered under the policy/instructions dated 17.11.2017 issued by Government and therefore, the grant of the said benefit of family pension by the Tribunal is incorrect. Learned counsel further submits that there has been a delay at the hands of claimant in ra