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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

% Date of Decision : 08.01.2026

+ W.P.(C) 217/2026, CM APPL. 981/2026 & CM APPL. 982/2026

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

Through: Mr. Shashank Dixit, CGSC and Mr.

Kunal Raj, Adv.

versus

(639571) EX MWO SATYAWAN BHARDWAJ .....Respondent

Through:

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE V. KAMESWAR RAO

HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA

MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA, J. (ORAL

CM APPL. 982/2026

1. Allowed, subject to just exceptions.

2. The application is disposed of.

W.P.(C) 217/2026 and CM APPL. 981/2026

3. This petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India lays the challenge to the order dated 10.05.2023 (‘impugned order’) passed by the Armed Forces Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (‘Tribunal’, for short) in O.A. 1257/2022 titled (639571) Ex. MWO Satyawan Bhardwaj v. Union of India and Others, wherein the respondent has been given the benefit of disability element of pension at 20% for life for the disability of Diabetes Mellitus Type II (old), rounded off to 50% from the date of

retirement i.e. 31.07.2019 with 6% interest p.a. till the date of payment.

4. The facts to be noted are the respondent was enrolled in the Indian Air Force on 21