Question : Service related Cases

(a) the number of Service related cases of defence personnel lying pending in various High Courts, Armed Forces Tribunals (AFTs) and the Supreme Court as on January 31, 2016, year-wise;

(b) the number of cases in which the Government have moved High Courts or the Supreme Court against the verdict of the Armed Forces Tribunal, year-wise;

(c) the number of cases in which the High Courts or the Supreme Court have declined to interfere in the decisions given by the AFTs;

(d) whether the Government have since decided to make any alternate arrangement to dispose of these cases expeditiously; and

(e) if so, the details thereof and the time by which the new arrangement to dispose the cases expeditiously is likely to come in force?

Answer given by the minister

MINISTER OF DEFENCE (SHRI MANOHAR PARRIKAR)

(a) to (e): The information is being collected and will be laid on the Table of the House.

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