WRIT - A No. 2488 of 2025 at Lucknow

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:12929-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 2488 of 2025 Petitioner :- Union Of India Thru. Secy. Ministry Of Defence New Delhi And 3 Others Respondent :- No 2715892 M Rect Rahul Kumar Counsel for Petitioner :- Ajit Kumar Dwivedi Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J. 1. Heard Sri Ajit Kumar Dwivedi, learned counsel for the petitioner. 2. By means of the instant writ petition, the petitioner has challenged the validity of the judgement and order dated 11.11.2021 passed by the Armed Forces Tribunal, Lucknow in Original Application No.100 of 2019. By means of the aforesaid original application the respondent had challenged the validity of the order dated 15.01.2019 whereby the respondent was declared deserter. The Tribunal allowed the Original Application holding that the respondent had absented himself from service without leave from 13.04.2018 and he reported back on 30.04.2018 i.e.after about 17 days. It appears that he was willing to serve the Army. The respondent had filed the original application no.232 of 2018 before the Tribunal on 23.04.2018 but he had joined his duties on 30.04.2018, the original application was di