In this paper, second order singularly perturbed convection-diffusion Robin type problem with a discontinuous source term is considered. Due to the discontinuity interior layers appears in the solution. A numerical method is constructed for this problem which involves an appropriate piecewise—uniform mesh for the boundary and interior layers. The method is shown to be parameter uniformly convergent with respect to the singular perturbation parameter. Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the theoretical results. © 2015, Springer India Pvt. Ltd.