IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Decided on :09.04.2026 UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS . .Petitioners Versus NO 6281103 EX NK MOHAN SINGH AND ANOTHER . . . Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA PRESENT: Mr. Narender Kumar Vashist, Senior Panel Counsel for the petitioners-UOI.

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HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI , J. (Oral)

1. In the present petition, the challenge is to the impugned order dated 21.03.2023 (Annexure P-1) passed by Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench, Chandigarh, (in short, ‘the Tribunal’ ) in OA No. 753 of 2019, by which, the benefit of service pension has been granted in favour of respondent No. 1 w.e.f. 30.09.1977 and the arrears have been restricted from

14.08.2001.

2. The only argument which has been raised by learned counsel for the petitioners is that the arrears granted in favour of respondent no. 1 should be restricted for three years from filing of the case and in support of said contention, learned counsel for the petitioners places reliance upon the judgment passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in Civil Appeal No. 998 of 2025 titled as ‘Rajumon T. M versus Union of India and others’,