UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS vs NO 13666836P EX NAIK ZILE SINGH AND ANOTHER

CWP-27211-2025 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 202 CWP-27211-2025 Date of Decision :04.05.2026 Union of India and others ...Petitioners Versus Ex. Naik (TS) Zile Singh and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA Present: Mr. Vikas Sharma, Senior Panel Counsel for the petitioners-UOI. Mr. Anuj Tanwar, Advocate for respondent No.1. *** Harsimran Singh Sethi, J. (Oral) 1. In the present petition, the challenge is to the impugned order dated 06.02.2023 (Annexure P-1) passed by respondent No.2-Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Tribunal’) by which, a direction has been given by the Tribunal to release the service pension to respondent No.1, who is a convicted employee only on the ground that he has been granted the benefit of bail. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that as per the settled principle of law, the pension of a convicted employee can be stopped under the regulations and in the present case, after the conviction of respondent No.1, his pension was stopped and after being released on bail, he claimed the benefit of restoratio