IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 27.11.2025 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS ...Petitioners Versus SEPOY JADGISH RAM AND ANR ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKAS SURI Present:- Ms. Bhavana Datta, 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 25.01.2023 (Annexure P-1) passed by respondent No. 2-Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench, Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as ‘Tribunal’), by which, respondent No.1 has been granted the benefit of pension, on the ground that the same is perverse.

2. The argument raised by petitioners-UOI is that respondent No.1 was recruited 27.02.1963 and was discharged on 01.03.1978 but he never claimed pension till the date when the Original Application was filed, hence the delay in claim of the pension has not been considered while granting the benefit of pension to respondent No.1 by the Tribunal. Learned counsel for the petitioners further submits that there was no record available to grant the benefit especially after a period of 40 years upon the delayed claim.

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