UNION OF INDIA & ORS. vs EX HAV PANKAJ KUMAR KAUSHIK (14620307-A)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI W.P.(C) 18852/2025 and CM APPL. 78461/2025 UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Satya Ranjan Swain, CGSC versus EX HAV PANKAJ KUMAR KAUSHIK (14620307-A) .....Respondent Through: Mr. V S Kadian and Mr. Sukhbir Singh, Advocate CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE OM PRAKASH SHUKLA JUDGMENT (ORAL) % 12.12.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. This appeal is directed against order dated 23 November 2023 passed by the learned Armed Forces Tribunal1 to the extent it allows disability pension to the respondent. 2. After having served with the petitioners for over 15 years, the respondent was found to have suffering from Immune Surveillance to the extent of 40% and Primary Hypertension to the extent of 30% with a composite disability to the extent of 58%, for life. 3. The respondent was released from military service on the aforesaid grounds. He claimed disability pension, which stands 1 “AFT”, hereinafter 4. The only reasoning of the Release Medical Board, which considered the case of the respondent, for treating his ailment as neither attributable to, nor aggravated by, his military service, reads thus: “Due to onset