UNION OF INDIA AND ORS vs SEWA SINGH AND ANR

CWP-18206-2026 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 130 CWP-18206-2026 Date of Decision :29.05.2026 Union of India and others ...Petitioners Versus Ex Hav (Hony Naib Sub) Sewa Singh and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA Present: Ms. Neha Jain, Senior Panel Counsel for the petitioners-UOI. *** Harsimran Singh Sethi, J. (Oral) 1. In the present petition, challenge is to the impugned order dated 31.01.2026 (Annexure P-6) passed by respondent No.2-Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Tribunal’) by which, respondent No.1 has been allowed the benefit of disability pension alongwith benefit of rounding off of the disability element of disability pension from 20% to 50% from 01.01.1996 onwards for life. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners places reliance upon the report of medical examination of respondent No.1 to contend that though, the disability of ‘Essential Primary Hypertension’ has been found to be existing in respondent No.1, but the said disability has been held to be ‘neither attributable to nor aggravated by military service’. Hence, the