Rajender Singh vs Union of India on 16 October 2026

ORDER

MA 704 of 2025

Allowed as prayed for.

OA 1740 of 2022

The applicant was discharged from service on 30.04.2021. He was in a permanent low medical category on account of disability of ‘Primary Hypertension’, the extent of which has been assessed to be 30% for life but neither attributable to nor aggravated by military service because the onset thereof was in a peace area. Thus, the present Original Application has been filed.

Learned counsel for the applicant relies upon order passed on 06.12.2024 by Regional Bench Chandigarh in OA No. 861 of 2022 titled Ex. MWO Bhupinder Singh Versus Union of India and Others to submit that the disability could not have been assessed to be neither attributable to nor aggravated by military service merely because the onset thereof was in peace area.

The learned counsel for respondents has not been able to distinguish this case from Ex. MWO Bhupinder Singh (supra).

OA 1740 of 2022 Rajender Singh vs UOI & Ors. ..2

4. Thus, the Original Application is allowed. Finding of neither attributable to nor aggravated by military service returned by the Release Medical Board is quashed. The applicant is held entitled to grant of disability element for disability of ‘Primary Hypertension’ @30% rounded off to 50% with effect from 01.05.2021 for life. Corrigendum Pension Payment Order be issued within three months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order by the respondents’ counsel/OIC Legal Cell. Arrears be also paid within the said period, failing which the same shall become payable with interest @ 6% per annum.

(Lt Gen Ravendra Pal Singh (Retd)

(Justice Sudhir Mittal) Member (A)

Member (J)

16thOct, 2026 DK

REPORTABLE OR NOT