IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA

AT CHANDIGARH

Date of Decision :12.01.2026

Union of India and others ...Petitioners

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WEX-Hav Jitender Kumar and another ....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKAS SURI

Present: Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma, Senior Panel Counsel

for the petitioners-UOI.

Harsimran Singh Sethi, J. (Oral)

1. In the present petition, challenge is to the impugned order dated 24.10.2024 (Annexure P-1) passed by respondent No.2-Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Tribunal’) by which, respondent No.1 has been allowed the benefit of disability pension alongwith benefit of rounding off of the disability element from 30% to 50% from the day next to the date of his discharge

from service i.e. 01.04.2017.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioners places reliance upon the report of medical examination of respondent No.1 to contend that though, the disability of ‘Primary Hypertension’ has been found to be existing in respondent No.1, but the said disability has been held to be ‘neither attributable to nor aggravated by military service’. Hence, the grant of benefit of disability pension to responde