UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS vs AMRIT AND ANOTHER

CWP-14096-2026 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 110 CWP-14096-2026 (O&M) Date of Decision :07.05.2026 Union of India and others … Petitioners Versus Amrit and another … Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA Present: Mr. Ramesh Chand Sharma, Senior Panel Counsel, for the petitioners-UOI. *** HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI, J. (Oral) 1. In the present petition, challenge is to the impugned order dated 11.08.2025 (Annexure P-1) passed by respondent No.2-Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench Chandigarh (in short, ‘the Tribunal’) by which, the Original Application filed by respondent No.1 has been allowed with a direction to the petitioners-UOI to review the rejection letter dated 28.02.2017 (Annexure P-20), letter dated 01.09.2017 (Annexure P-22) and letter dated 25.10.2017 (Annexure P-23) for grant of dependent family pension. 2. The argument which has been raised by the learned counsel for the petitioners is that the actual divorce of the daughter i.e. respondent herein took place after the death of her mother and therefore, such divorce which took place after the death of the last beneficiary, the daug