IN THE HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH

AT JAMMU

Case No: WP(C) No. 1740/2025

Reserved on: 17.12.2025

Pronounced on:24.12.2025

Uploaded on: 24.12.2025

Whether the operative part or full

Judgment is pronounced : Full

Union of India and others .

…Petitioner(s)/Appellant(s)

Through: Mr. Vikas Sharma, Advocate.

v/s

Dev Raj

….Respondent(s)

Through: Mr. Amit Singh, Advocate with

Mr. S.K.Saini, Advocate.

CORAM: HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE

HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJNESH OSWAL, JUDGE.

JUDGMENT

PER OSWAL-J

1. The petitioners, through the medium of the present writ petition filed

in the year 2025, have assailed the order dated 29.11.2018 passed by the Armed Forces Tribunal, Srinagar Bench at Jammu (hereinafter referred to as “the AFT”) in Original Application No. 570/2018, titled “Dev Raj Vs. Union of India and others”, whereby the respondent-

applicant has been held entitled to the benefit of rounding off his disability by computing it at 50% instead of 30% with effect from 01.09.1996, and the order dated 31.07.2018 passed by the petitioners has been set aside.

2. By way of the present petition, the petitioners seek the quashing of the order dated 29.11.2018. It is submitted that the learned AFT erred in law