JUDGMENT

Ms. Shalinder Kaur, J. -

These petitions have been filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, challenging different but comparable orders passed by the learned Armed Forces Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (herein referred to as, 'Tribunal'), whereby the learned Tribunal allowed the Original Applications (O.As.) filed by the respondents herein, holding that the respondents are entitled to the grant of disability pension for their respective disabilities.

2. For the sake of convenience, and since the issue involved in these petitions pertains to the disability suffered by the Armed Forces personnel due to some illness while being in military service, the facts of W.P.(C) 140 of 2024 are discussed herein to establish the context pertaining to the present batch of petitions.

3. The condensed factual overview is that the respondent was commissioned into the Indian Army on 10.06.1989 and retired from service on 30.06.2021 upon attaining the age of superannuation. On 18.01.2012, while the respondent was posted at Headquarters 41 Artillery Division, Pune, he was diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus Type-II and was recommended to be placed in the Low Medical Category (P2-Pe