Pension benefits to ex-servicemen apply from date of discharge: HC Chandigarh :

Pension benefits to ex-servicemen apply from date of discharge: HC Chandigarh : 

15.10. 2024

In an order having wide ramifications for pension cases of military veterans, Punjab and Haryana HC has made it clear that pensioners will be entitled to benefits from the date of discharge from service, not from the date of a court/tribunal order awarding the pension benefits, reports Ajay Sura. Allowing a plea by ex-serviceman Jaspal Singh, a division bench quashed an order by Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT), Chandigarh, awarding pension benefits to the petitioner from the date of its order (April 5, 2019). The bench ruled that the petitioner was entitled to service pension “from the date whereon the same accrued to him, along with 7% interest per annum”.