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Union of India and Others v. Sukhwinder Singh and Anr.

Punjab & Haryana HC10 Jul 2025CWP/18828/2025

Case brief

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What is this about?

Disability pension; rounding off from 50% to 75%; Armed Forces Tribunal order dated 21.11.2023 upheld; CWP-18828 of 2025; High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh; Bijender Singh 2025 SCC OnLine SC 895; Union of India vs. Ram Avtar 2014 SCC Online SC 1761; writ petition by Union of India dismissed; implementation within two months; miscellaneous applications disposed.

What did the court decide?

No relief to petitioners; impugned AFT order to be implemented within two months, and all pending miscellaneous applications disposed of. ¶22

Union of India and Others Vs Sukhwinder Singh and Anr. — Punjab & Haryana HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

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CWP-18828 of 2025

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

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CWP-18828 of 2025 DATE OF DECISION :-10.07.2025

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Union of India and others

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...Petitioners

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Versus

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Sukhwinder Singh and another

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...Respondents

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CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJEEV PRAKASH SHARMA HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE MEENAKSHI I. MEHTA

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Present :- Ms. Sehaj Sandhawalia, Advocate for UOI for the petitioners.

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SANJEEV PRAKASH SHARMA, J. (ORAL)

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The challenge is to the order passed by the learned Armed Forces Tribunal dated 21.11.2023.

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Learned counsel submits that there was no occasion to round off the disability from 50% to 75%.

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The issue is no more res-integra in view of the judgment passed by the Hon’ble Apex Court in the case of Bijender Singh v. Union of India and others, 2025 SCC OnLine SC 895 , which affirms the earlier judgment passed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of Union of India and others vs. Ram Avtar 2014 SCC Online SC 1761 , wherein the Hon’ble Apex Court has approved the rounding off clause relating to grant of disability pension to 50% where the disability is less than 50%, 75%, where

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PARVINDER SINGH 2025.07.14 12:06 I attest to the accuracy and authenticity of this order/judgment

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CWP-18828 of 2025

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the disability is from 50% to 75% and 100% where the disability is more than 75%.

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In view thereto, the order passed by the AFT rounding off the disability pension from 50% to 75% does not call for any interference. The writ petition is without merit and the same is dismissed. The impugned order

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shall now be implemented within a period of two months from today.

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