$~65 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 18437/2025, CM APPL. 76324/2025 & CM APPL. 76325/2025 UNION OF INDIA THROUGH IT & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Major Anish Muralidhar, Army versus ARVINDA KUMAR AZAD RETD .....Respondent Through: Mr. Manoj Kr. Gupta, Adv. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE OM PRAKASH SHUKLA O R D E R % 04.12.2025 1. Learned Counsel for the petitioner restricts the challenge in this writ petition to grant of benefit of broad-banding prospectively from the date of the judgment of the Supreme Court in Union of India v. Ram Avtar1. 2. Subject to the above clarification, the petition is disposed of in the aforesaid terms. C. HARI SHANKAR, J. OM PRAKASH SHUKLA, J. DECEMBER 4, 2025/rjd 1 2014 SCC OnLine SC 1761 This is a digitally signed order. The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 08/12/2025 at 12:06:11