P&H: Upholds 20% Disability Pension for Ex-Army Personnel Despite Medical Board assessed disability below 20%.

Armed service — Disability pension — Where an Armed Forces employee was medically examined at time of selection and was not found suffering from disease on the basis of which petitioner was later discharged, employee is entitled to benefit of presumption that disability was contracted during service...

Armed service — Disability pension — Disability assessed below 20% — Any injury which leads to an Army personnel being discharged or invalidated out of service, if assessed at less than 20% has to be treated as a minimum of 20% for the purpose of grant of disability pension....

Armed service — Disability pension — Armed Forces personnel is entitled to benefit of rounding off of disability pension if suffering from disability attributable to or aggravated by military service, irrespective of whether personnel was invalidated out of service, retired on superannuation or completed tenure of...

Armed service — Disability pension — Respondent was medically fit at enrolment and developed disability after more than 16 years of service — In absence of cogent evidence or detailed medical material showing that disability was not attributable to military service, disability had to be...