Armed
Forces Tribunal (AFT) has been set up under Armed Forces Tribunal Act, 2007 to
provide for the adjudication or trial of disputes and complaints with respect
to commission, appointments, enrolment and conditions of service in respect of
persons subject to the Army Act, 1950, the Navy Act, 1957 and the Air Force
Act, 1950 and also to provide for appeals arising out of orders, findings or
sentences of courts-martial held under the said Acts and for matters connected
therewith or incidental thereto.
Armed
Forces Tribunal has its Principal Bench at New Delhi and eight Regional Benches
at Jaipur, Chandigarh, Lucknow, Guwahati, Kolkata, Chennai, Kochi and Mumbai.
The details with regard to location, date of operation and territorial
jurisdiction is enclosed as under:
Armed Forces Tribunal
(AFT) and its Territorial Jurisdiction:
|
Location of
Regional Bench
|
Date
of operationalisation
|
Territorial
Jurisdiction
|
|
Armed Forces Tribunal
(AFT), Principal Bench.
|
10.08.2009
|
New
Delhi.
|
|
Lucknow
|
09.11.2009
|
States
of Uttar Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
|
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Chandigarh
|
16.11.2009
|
States
of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and UT of Chandigarh.
|
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Chennai
|
26.10.2009
|
States
of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Union Territory of Puducherry.
|
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Jaipur
|
03.11.2009
|
State
of Rajasthan.
|
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Kolkata
|
23.11.2009
|
States
of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Union Territory of Andaman &
Nicobar Islands.
|
|
Kochi
|
07.12.2009
|
States
of Kerala, Karnataka and Union Territory of Lakshadweep.
|
|
Guwahati
|
31.07.
2010
|
States
of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura
& Sikkim.
|
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Mumbai
|
09.06.2011
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States
of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa and the Union Territories of Daman and Diu
and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
|
The
Cabinet has approved setting up of two more Regional Benches at Srinagar
(J&K) and Jabalpur (M.P).
This
information was given by Defence Minister Shri Arun Jaitley in a written reply
to Shri Ganesh Singh in Lok Sabha today.
HH/RK