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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

% Date of Decision :06.01.2026

+ W.P.(C) 75/2026 & CM APPL. 334-335/2026

UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Petitioners

Through: Mr. Shashank Bajpai, CGSC with Ms.

Aashna Mehra, Mr. Vatsal Tripathi and Mr. Govind Singh Chauhan,

Advs.

Sgt. Mritunjay and Sgt. Padam

Charan, DAV, Legal Cell, Air Force

versus

EX SGT MAHESH KUMAR DUDEJA 790794 S .....Respondent

Through: Mr. Durgesh Kumar Sharma and Mr.

Harish Kumar, Advs.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE V. KAMESWAR RAO

HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA

MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA. (ORAL

CM APPL. 335/2026

1. Allowed, subject to just exceptions.

2. The application is disposed of.

W.P.(C) 75/2026

1. This petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India lays the challenge to the order dated 12.07.2023 (‘impugned order’) passed by the Armed Forces Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (‘Tribunal’, for short) in O.A. 1039/2019 titled Ex. SGT Mahesh Kumar Dudeja v. Union of

India and Others, wherein the respondent has been granted the benefit of the disability element of pension at 20% for life (for Diabetes Mellitus Type II) and at 30% for life (for Primary Hypertension), compositely assessed at

44% for life, round