JUDGMENT

Alok Sharma, J. - This petition has been filed with the prayer that the notification dated 21st May, 2018 issued by the Department of Exservicemen Welfare, Government of India, Ministry of Defence (hereafter 'Ministry of Defence') to the extent it does not include the wards of ex-servicemen disabled in service and boarded out with disability aggravated by Military Service under its priority No. IV be quashed and set-aside. It has further been prayed that consequently the Ministry of Defence be directed to include the wards of ex-servicemen disabled in service and boarded out with disability aggravated by military service in priority IV of the Notification dated 21st May, 2018 for grant of benefit of reservation for wards of Defence Personnel boarded out from service with disability in non battle casualty area.

2. The petitioner's father Ex. Subedar Rati Ram Khatik was medically boarded out from military service with 30% disability of bronchial asthma found to have been aggravated by military service. He was consequently granted disability pension under Rule 173 of the Pension Regulations for Indian Army, 1961. The petitioner wrote the NEET UG 2019 examination under the Wards