IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 23.02.2026 CWP-5434-2026 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS ...Petitioners Versus EX SEPOY GURMUKH SINGH ...Respondent

119 CWP-5453-2026 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS ...Petitioners Versus EX SEPOY HARI SINGH ...Respondent

121 CWP-5479-2026 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS ...Petitioners Versus HAVILDAR PAWAN KUMAR ...Respondent

127 CWP-5608-2026 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS ...Petitioners Versus COL SANDEEP SATWALEKAR (RETD) AND ANR ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKAS SURI Present:- Mr. Rohit Verma, Senior Standing Counsel, for the petitioners in CWP-5608-2026.

Mr. N.K. Verma, Senior Standing Counsel, for the petitioners in remaining three writ petitions.

Mr. Arishit Goel, Advocate, for respondent No.1 in CWP-5608-2026.

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HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI , J. (ORAL)

1. By this order, we propose to dispose of aforementioned four writ petitions by a common order as the issue involved in these writ petitions is the same. With the consent of learned counsel for the parties and for the sake of convenience, facts are being taken from CWP-5479-2026.

2. In the present petition, the challenge is to the impugned ord