UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS vs SITA DEVI AND ANOTHER

CWP No.10420 of 2025 (O&M) IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 254 CWP-10420-2025 (O&M) Date of Decision: 13.05.2026 UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS .....Petitioners Versus SITA DEVI AND ANOTHER ........Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA Present: Ms. Geeta Singhwal, Advocate, Senior Panel Counsel for the petitioners-UOI. Mr. Akash Kundu, Advocate, for respondent No.1. Service upon respondent No.2 is dispensed with vide order dated 09.09.2025. **** HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI, J. (Oral) 1. In the present petition, the challenge is to the impugned order dated 05.10.2021 (Annexure P-1) passed by respondent No. 2-Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench, Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Tribunal’), by which, the benefit of ordinary family pension has been granted in favour of respondent No.1 in respect of the service rendered by her late husband-Rattan Singh. 2. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners argues that the husband of respondent No.1 was enrolled in the Indian Amry on 28.10.1988 and was discharged from service on 30.06.1994. The said discharge was on the basis of an application submit