UNION OF INDIA AND ORS vs HARNEK SINGH

CWP-29203-2025 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH (203) CWP-29203-2025 Date of Decision : May 04, 2026 Union of India and others .. Petitioners Versus Ex. NK Harnek Singh .. Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA Present: Mr. N.K. Verma, Advocate, for the petitioners. HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI J. (ORAL) 1. In the present petition, challenge is to the impugned order dated 20.10.2021 (Annexure P-1) passed by Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench, Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as ‘Tribunal’), by which, the respondent has been held entitled for the grant of service pension after condoning the shortfall of service equivalent to 01 year and 42 days. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners submit that the issue raised in the present petition with regard to the grant of benefit of condonation of service so as to consider the service of the officer concerned to the minimum of 15 years, which is the qualifying service required for the grant of service pension, disability pension including the family pension as the case may be, has already been decided by the Hon’ble the Supreme Court of India while passing judgme