UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS vs KULDEEP SINGH AND ANOTHER

CWP-14191-2026 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH 113 CWP-14191-2026 Date of Decision: 07.05.2026 Union of India and others ...Petitioners Versus No.448158 H. Ex. NK Kuldeep Singh and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA Present: Ms. Bhavana Datta, Senior Panel Counsel for petitioners-UOI. *** HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI, J. (ORAL) 1. In the present petition, challenge is to the impugned order dated 06.02.2024 (Annexure P-1) 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 element of disability pension alongwith benefit of rounding off of the disability element from less than 20% (15-19%) to 50% from the day of following the date of his discharge. 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 ‘Other Non Organic Psychotic Disorder’ has been found to be existing in respondent No.1, but the said disability has been held to be ‘neither attributable to nor