Randhir Singh vs Union of India on 16 October 2026

ORDER

The applicant was discharged on completion of tenure on 31.10.2017. He was in a permanent low medical category on account of disabilities of (a) ‘Immune Surveillance’ the extent of which was assessed to be 40% for life but neither attributable to nor aggravated by military service and (b) ‘CMV Retinitis (RT) Eye with Pseudophakia (RT) Eye’, the extent of which was also assessed to be 40% for life but neither attributable to nor aggravated by military service. Claim for grant of disability element has been rejected because both the disabilities were assessed to be neither attributable to nor aggravated by military service.

On the request of learned counsel for the applicant, adjourned to 15.01.2027.

(Lt Gen Ravendra Pal Singh (Retd)

(Justice Sudhir Mittal) Member (A)

Member (J)

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