UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS vs SURESH KUMAR AND ANOTHER

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA, CHANDIGARH Sr. No.: 115 Civil Writ Petition No.16933 of 2026 Date of Decision: May 26, 2026 Union of India & others ..... PETITIONER(S) VERSUS Suresh Kumar & another ..... RESPONDENT(S) CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA PRESENT: - Ms. Bhavana Datta, Senior Panel Counsel for Union of India. HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI, J (Oral) 1. In the present petition, challenge is to order dated 16.11.2022 (Annexure P-1) passed by the Armed Forces Tribunal (in short, the Tribunal), by which benefit of notional promotion to respondent to the rank of Naib Risaldar from the date his juniors were granted promotion, has been granted, is incorrect. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners argues that the respondent did not have in his credit the required benchmark keeping in view his annual confidential report alongwith the fact that he had failed to pass the departmental examination which was required to be cleared for grant of promotion, which facts have not been considered by the Tribunal in the correct perspective. 3. We have heard learned counsel for the petitioners and gone through the record with her assistance.