P&H: Upholds Armed Force Tribunal Order Granting Disability Pension and Rounding Off From 20% To 50% Affirmed
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a Union of India writ petition challenging an Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT), Chandigarh order that granted disability pension to ex-Havildar and rounded off his disability from 20% to 50% for life with effect from April 1, 2019.
The Union of India argued that a Medical Board had assessed the respondent’s disability—Idiopathic Generalised Epilepsy—at 20% and found it neither attributable to nor aggravated by military service, and therefore the AFT erred in granting disability benefits and rounding off.
A Division Bench noted that officer served from October 10, 1998, until his discharge on...
