Supreme Court of India

Union of India and Ors. v. Brigadier P.S. Gill

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Reported as [2012] 2 S.C.R. 571
Bench T.S. Thakur and Gyan Sudha Misra JJ.
Decided 23 March 2012

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What the Court ordered

In the result these appeals are dismissed reserving liberty to the appellants to take recourse to Section 31 of the E Act.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Armed Forces Triburral Act, 2007 - ss. 30(1) and 31 - Appeal against final decision/order of the Armed Forces Tribunal - Whether can be made directly to Supreme Court or is subject to s.31 - Held: There is no vested right of appeal aginst final decision! order of the Tribunal to Supreme Court except those falling u/s. 30(2) of the Act - Appeal under Section 30(1) is subject to s. 31 -Aggrieved party also cannot - approach Supreme Court directly under Section 31(1) rlw s. o 31(2). lnterpretion of Statutes: Each word used in an enactment, howsoever significant or insignificant, must be allowed

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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