$~94 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision : 19.01.2026 + W.P.(C) 18067/2025 UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Petitioners Through: Mr. Abhishek Yadav,SPC versus HFO (MWO) RAJENDRA PRASAD SWAMI (RETD)

.....Respondent Through: Mr. Prabhakar Mani Tiwari, Advs.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE V. KAMESWAR RAO HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MANMEET PRITAM SINGH ARORA V. KAMESWAR RAO, J. (ORAL CM APPL. 74729/2025 (Exemption)

1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions.

2. The application stands disposed of.

W.P.(C) 18067/2025 & CM APPL. 74728/2025

3. This petition lays a challenge to order dated 14.05.2024 passed by the Armed Forces Tribunal Principal Bench, New Delhi (‘Tribunal’)in Original Application No. 3056/2022 (‘OA’, for short), wherein, the Tribunal has allowed the OA filed by the respondent by stating in paragraphs nos.5 & 6, as under:-

“5. Accordingly, we allow this application and direct the respondents to grant disability element of pension to the applicant for Primary Hypertension @ 30% for life which be rounded off to 50% for life from the date of retirement i.e., 28.02.2021 in terms of the judicial pronouncement of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Union of India Vs. Ram A