In Brief
An armed forces serviceman (Bharat Singh Shakya) who was dismissed from service challenged the dismissal before the Armed Forces Tribunal, which upheld it. During the pendency of his subsequent appeal to the Supreme Court, the appellant made a representation to the competent authority, which agreed to convert his dismissal into discharge. The Supreme Court disposed of the appeal by confirming this conversion of dismissal to discharge for all purposes, thereby substituting the penalty without addressing the merits of the tribunal's decision to dismiss the appeal."
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