UNION OF INDIA & ORS. vs EX PO COM (EW) MUNNALAL

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI W.P.(C) 16383/2025, CM APPL. 67145/2025, CM APPL. 67146/2025 & CM APPL. 67147/2025 UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Jagdish Chandra, CGSC with Mr. Sujeet Kumar, Adv. versus EX PO COM (EW) MUNNALAL .....Respondent Through: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE OM PRAKASH SHUKLA O R D E R (ORAL) % 29.10.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. This writ petition is directed against the order dated 16 May 2023, passed by the Armed Forces Tribunal1, whereby the respondent’s application for grant of disability pension was allowed. 2. The disability from which the respondent suffered, on the basis of which the disability pension was sought, was a fracture of the shaft of the right tibia. The injury was suffered six years after the respondent had joined service and the respondent was discharged from service nine years thereafter on the basis of the said injury. 3. The reason for the Release Medical Board2 opining that the injury was not attributable to military service, as contained in the 1 “AFT”, hereinafter 2 “RMB”, hereinafter 4. The injury report is also on record. Admittedly, the injury was sustained by the respo