UNION OF INDIA AND ORS vs EX SUB BIJENDRA SINGH SIROHI

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$~6 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision : 29.01.2026 + W.P.(C) 19340/2025, CM APPL. 80717/2025 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS .....Petitioners Through: Ms. Aishwarya Chhabra, SPC and Major Anish Muralidhar, Army versus EX SUB BIJENDRA SINGH SIROHI .....Respondent Through: Mr. V. S. Kadian, Adv. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE V. KAMESWAR RAO HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA V. KAMESWAR RAO, J. (ORAL) CM APPL. 80718/2025 (for exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to just exceptions. 2. The application is disposed of. W.P.(C) 19340/2025, CM APPL. 80717/2025 3. This writ petition has been filed challenging the order dated 08.02.2024 passed by the Armed Forces Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (“Tribunal”) in Original Application No. 575/2016 (‘OA’ for short) wherein the Tribunal has allowed the OA filed by the respondent herein by stating in paragraphs 10 and 11 as under:- “10. In view of the aforesaid judicial pronouncements and the parameters referred to above, the applicant is entitled for disability element of pension in respect of disability ‘Essential Hypertension'. Accordingly, we allow this application holding that the applicant is Signature Not Verified Signed By:PRADEEP W.P. (C) 19340/2025 Page 1 of 3 SHARMA Signing Date:06.02.2026 10:51:58 entitled to disability element of pension @ 20% rounded off to 50% for life with effect from the date of his discharge in terms of the judicial pronouncement of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Union of India vs. Ram Avtar (Civil Appeal No. 418/2022), decided on 10.12.2014. 11. The respondents are thus directed to calculate, sanction and issue the necessary PPO to the applicant within a period of three months from the date of receipt of copy of this order. The amount of arears however are directed