CWP No.13026 of 1994 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.13026 of 1994 (O&M) Date of Decision:- February 26, 2010 Satvir Singh ...Petitioner VERSUS Union of India and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M.KUMAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURYA KANT HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JITENDRA CHAUHAN Present: Mr.Bhim Sen Sehgal, Advocate for the petitioner. Mrs.Shashi Ghuman, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.T.S.Bhatti, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.P.S.Chauhan, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr.Gurpreet Singh, Senior Standing Panel Counsel for Union of India. Mr.Anil Rathi, Central Government Standing Counsel. Mr.Jagjit Singh, Advocate for Mr.Chander Mohan Sharma, Central Government Standing Counsel for Union of India. ***** 1. To be referred to the Reporter or not? 2. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? M.M.KUMAR, J. These bunch of writ petitions! pertain to the disability pension of Ex-Army personnel. At the outset, learned counsel for the respondents have raised a preliminary objection by placing reliance on Section 34 read with CWP No.13026 of 1994 (O&M) -2- Section 14 and 2(O) of the Armed Forces Tribunal Act, 2007 (for brevity 'the Act'). The co-joint reading of these Sections would show that all service matters concerning the members of Armed Forces involving pension and other retiral benefits pending before this Court, are required to be transferred to the Armed Forces Tribunal, Chandigarh Bench, Chandigarh (for brevity 'Army Tribunal), which is constituted for this jurisdiction. This bunch is comprised of writ petitions filed under Article 226/227 of the Constitution against the order passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, which now can be heard by the Army Tribunal. After hearing learned counsel for the parties, we are of the view that these matters are liable to be transferred to the Army Tribunal. We order accordingly. The parties through their counsel are directed to appear before the Army Tribunal on 29.3.2010. All these matters along with the original record be sent to the Army Tribunal by the Registry expeditiously, but not later than two weeks. This writ petition stand disposed of. (M.M.KUMAR) JUDGE (SURYA KANT) JUDGE February 26, 2010 (JITENDRA CHAUHAN) Vt JUDGE ! 1. CWP-13026-1994 SATVIR SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS 2. CWP-218-1994 BALBIR SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 3. CWP-4699-1993 M S MAJITHIA V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 4. CWP-5440-1993 RANDHIR SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. CWP No.13026 of 1994 (O&M) -3- 5. CWP-6276-1993 GULAB SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 6. CWP-6303-1993 MAKHAN SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 7. CWP-10679-1993 MOHAN SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 8. CWP-16010-1993 AMARJIT SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 9. CWP-3562-1994 EX-L/NK JAGAT RAM V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 10. CWP-4635-1993 EX-JC NAIB SUBEDAR MUKHTIAR SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 11. CWP-13616-1994 DALIP KAUR V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 12. CWP-13875-1994 BHAJAN SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 13. CWP-14893-1994 BISHAMBER DASS V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 14. CWP-16082-1994 EX HAWALDAR PHOOL SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 15. CWP-2074-1995 SARAB SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 16. CWP-2618-1995 DHYAN SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 17. CWP-3381-1995 EX SEPOY 4455217 HARPAL SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 18. CWP-9279-1995 EX-GNR. BALJIT SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 19. CWP-9539-1995 KARTAR SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. 20. CWP-16873-1995 EX SEP. SAHIB SINGH V/S UNION OF INDIA ETC. !