UNION OF INDIA vs EX NAIB SUB HARPAL SINGH JC843614

CWP-14544-2026 1 123 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP-14544-2026 Date of decision : 11.05.2026 Union of India and others ...Petitioners Vs. Ex.Naib Sub Harpal Singh and another ...Respondent(s) CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE DEEPAK MANCHANDA Present: Mr. Maneesh Bali, Advocate for the petitioners. *** HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI, J.(Oral) 1. In the present petition, the challenge is to the impugned order dated 22.08.2022 (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 pension along with the benefit of rounding off of the disability element of disability pension from 30% to 50% for life on the ground that the same is perverse. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioners places reliance upon the report of medical examination of respondent No. 1 to hold that though the disability of ‘Primary Hypertension’ has been found to be existing in respondent No.1, but the said disability has been assessed to be ‘neither attributable to nor aggravated by the Military service’. Hence, the gra