Ajaya Kumar Behera v. Union of India Represented through the Chief of the Air Staff
Case brief
What is this about?
Jurisdictional transfer to Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) of seven Delhi High Court writ petitions by ex-Air Force corporals on pensionary benefits; deference to tribunal jurisdiction under L Chandra Kumar v. Union of India, (1997) 3 SCC 261; High Court coram non judice on AFT-amenable matters; Registry directed to transfer record electronically within two weeks; registration as Transferred Applications; priority and expeditious disposal requested from AFT; counsel to appear before Tribunal on 22 December 2025; W.P.(C) 6300/2021, 11129/2021, 10125/2022, 10639/2022, 5990/2022, 10222/2022, 10987/2024; judgment dated 04.12.2025; C. Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla, JJ.
What did the court decide?
The writ petitions were not adjudicated by this Court; the Registry was directed to transfer the entire record of all seven connected writ petitions to the AFT electronically within two weeks, to be registered by the AFT as appropriate Transferred Applications; the AFT was requested to accord the matters priority and decide them expeditiously, and counsel for the parties were directed to appear before the Tribunal on 22 December 2025.