Lt Col Dashrath Singh Chauhan vs UOI & Others on 13 March 2026

O R D E R

13.03.2026

1. The Applicant has filed this Review Application praying for review of Order dated 19/12/2025 passed by this Tribunal with the following prayers :- (a) Review and recall the Order dated 19/12/2025; (b) Restore the Application to its original Number and status as a pending/ongoing case;

(c) Direct the Respondents to file their Reply Statement and status report strictly in compliance with the Order dated 18/8/2025; (d) Consider setting aside the impugned Show Cause Notice, having been issued under an incorrect and unauthorised provision of law; (e) Grant appropriate relief by directing the army authorities to stop process of maintenance allowance, as prayed for by the applicant until this case is fianalised and (f) Pass any other order(s) as this Hon’ble Tribunal may deem fit and proper in the interest of justice.

2. The applicant has appeared in person through Video Conferencing. We have heard the applicant and perused the material on record.

3. Vide Order dated 19/12/2025, this Tribunal had directed the Competent Authority to take into consideration the issues/objections/points submitted by the applicant in response to Show CauseNotice issued to the applicant and take a final decision and intimate the outcome to the applicant.

4. During the course of hearing, OIC Legal Cell appearing for the Respondents submitted that the Competent Authority has considered the entire gamut of issue involved in this matter and vide Order dated 23/2/2026, General Officer Commanding in Chief, Southern Command has accorded sanction to grant Maintenance Allowance @ 10% pm and @5.5%, pm totaling 15.5% pm, in favour of the estranged wife and daughter of the applicant respectively wef 12/9/2024 from the pay and allowance of the applicant. In support of her viewpoint, the OIC Legal Cell has paced on record a copy of the letter ibid, which is taken on record. Perusal of letter reveals that the competent authority has taken into consideration the matter in its entirety including the financial liabilities of the applicant while granting maintenance allowance to the wife and daughter of the applicant.

5. In view of the foregoing and since the issue has been considered holistically by the competent authority as also there is no error apparent on the face of the Order passed by this Tribunal which has alsobeen duly complied with by the Respondents, the Review Application filed by the Applicant to review the Order dated 19/12/2025 passed by this Tribunal has no merit and is, therefore, rejected.

RA 05/2026 with MA 81/2026 & MA 89/2026 in OA

Lt Col Dashrath Singh Chauhan (SS-46020)

6. RA No 05/2026 is dismissed.

7. Pending application(s), if any, also stand disposed off.

8. File be consigned to record.

(SANJIV MITTAL)

(GOVERDHAN BARDHAR) MEMBER (A)

MEMBER (J)

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