IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision :10.04.2026 Union of India and others ..Petitioners Versus Ex. Rect. Rakesh Kumar and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA Present: Ms. Neha Jain, 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 24.02.2023 (Annexure P-4) passed by respondent No.2-Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench, Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as, ‘the Tribunal’) by which, respondent No.1 has been allowed the benefit of invalid pension from the day next to the date of his discharge from service i.e. 09.09.2014 for life.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioners places reliance upon the report of medical examination of the respondent No.1 to hold that though the disability of ‘Knock Knee’ for life has been found in respondent No.1, but the same has been treated as ‘neither attributable to nor aggravated by the military service’ hence, the grant of benefit of invalid pension to respondent No. 1 by placing reliance upon the judgment passed by the three Judge Bench o