118 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 30.03.2026 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .....Petitioners Versus SMT. ROSHANI DEVI AND ANR ........Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA Present: Ms. Neha Jain, Advocate 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 14.12.2022 (Annexure P-3) passed by respondent No.2-Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Tribunal’) by which, a direction has been given to the petitioners herein to recalculate the service pension of husband of respondent No.1 by taking 33 years as maximum service rendered by husband of respondent No.1 so that, the respondent could get entitled for grant of family pension along with benefit of arrears.

2. Learned counsel for petitioners has not been able to dispute the said grant of the benefit of condonation of 5 years in favour of the claimant’s husband that the same is valid as per the judgment in OA No.465 of 2011 titled Hazari Singh Ram Versus Union of India and others, decided on 30.09.201