IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 20.01.2026 UNION OF INDIA AND ORS ...Petitioners Versus KESHAV DEV SARASWAT AND ANR ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKAS SURI Present:- Dr. Anandeshwar Gautam, Senior Standing Counsel, for the petitioners.

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HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI , J. (ORAL)

1. In the present petition, the challenge is to the impugned order dated 18.10.2024(Annexure P-1) passed by the Armed Forces Tribunal, Regional Bench, Chandigarh (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Tribunal’), by which, the respondent No.1 has been held to be entitled for disability element of disability pension @ 50% as against 20% for life from the date of his discharge i.e. 01.08.2022.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioners places reliance upon the report of the Release Medical Board of respondent No.1 to hold that though the disability of “Pituitary Macroadenoma with Pituitary Apoplexy (ICD-D 35.9)” @ 20% has been found in respondent No.1, but the same has been held by the Release Medical Board to be ‘neither attributable to Military Service nor aggravated by the Military service’. Hence, the grant of benefit of disabili