UNION OF INDIA & ORS. vs EX SUB GAWAS ANIL MADSO

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$~ * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Reserved on: 25 March 2025 Pronounced on: 27 March 2025 + W.P.(C) 3545/2025, CM APPLs. 16579/2025 & 16580/2025 UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Jivesh Kumar Tiwari, Sr. PC for UOI with Ms. Samiksha with Major Anish Murlidhar, (Army) versus EX SUB GAWAS ANIL MADSO .....Respondent Through: Mr. U.S. Maurya, Adv. W.P.(C) 3667/2025, CM APPLs. 17099/2025 & 17100/2025 UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. K.C. Dubey, Sr. PC with Mr. R.K. Dagar and Mr. Rupesh Kumar, Advs. for UOI with Major Anish Murlidhar, (Army) versus EX NK AMIN CHAND .....Respondent Through: Mr. U.S. Maurya, Adv. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AJAY DIGPAUL JUDGMENT % 27.03.2025 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:AJIT KUMAR W.P.(C) 3545/2025 Page 1 of 77 Signing Date:28.03.2025 17:08:21 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. WP (C) 3545/2025 [UOI v Ex Sub Gawas Anil Madso] 1. President John F. Kennedy’s stirring words during his inaugural address represent, to this day, the grand summation of everything that patriotism, and love for one’s nation, means and represents: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask for what you can do for your country.” 2. There are those of us who eulogize and revere these words, but stop there. Then there are those who make it part of their lives, and are willing to sacrifice their all for their country – who, while we sip our hot cappuccinos by the fireplace, are braving icy winds at the border, willing to lay down their lives at a moment’s notice. Can anything, that the nation, and we as its citizens, give to these true sons of the motherland, ever be too much? 3. And yet, the human body is made of skin, bone, and sinew, and it is not always that the body can keep pace with