UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS vs RAMESH KUMAR AND ANR

CWP-4430-2025 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH (245) CWP-4430-2025 Date of Decision : May 04, 2026 Union of India and others .. Petitioners Versus Ramesh Kumar and another .. Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA Present: Mr. Sushant Kareer, Senior Panel Counsel, for the petitioners-UOI (joined through VC) Mr. Arshit Goel, Advocate, for respondent No.1. HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI J. (ORAL) 1. In the present petition, challenge is to the impugned order dated 04.12.2019 (Annexure P-1) passed by the respondent No.2- Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench, Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as ‘Tribunal’), by which, respondent No. 1 has been held entitled for the grant of service pension after condoning the shortfall of service equivalent to 01 year and 06 days. 2. Learned counsel for the parties 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 pensi