Nearly 150 cases related to the Armed Forces have been transferred from the Punjab and Haryana High Court to the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) bench in Chandigarh within three days of its becoming operational, taking the number of cases transferred to be around 180.
Most of the cases are from 2007 to 2009.
The first date of hearing for these transferred cases has been fixed on January 20 next year.
The bench began functioning from November 16 and only one of the total three benches is functional at present comprising one judicial and administrative member each.
The present members are Justice Ghanshyam Prasad, former judge of Patna High Court, Lieutenant General
A S Bahia, former Director General Military Operations and Quarter Master General.
Two more retired HC judges will be appointed in due course.
The jurisdiction of the bench extends to Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and UT Chandigarh.
The tribunal has original jurisdiction over complaints and disputes regarding all service matters as also appellate jurisdiction over appeals arising out of verdicts of court martials.
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