Supreme Court of India

Veer Pal Singh v. Secretary, Ministry of Defence

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Reported as [2013] 10 S.C.R. 579
Bench G.S. Singhvi, Ranjana Prakash Desai and Sharad Arvind Bobde JJ.
Decided 2 July 2013

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What the Court ordered

We hold that B the impugned order as also orders dated 14. 7 .2011 and 16.9.2011 passed by the Tribunal are legally unsustainable.

Judgment, page 27

From the headnote

Armed Forces - Pre-mature release/discharge of appellant from service for suffering from 'Schizophrenic Reaction' - Disability pension - Entitlement to - Expert opinion - Opinion of Medical Board - Scope of judicial review - Whether, on facts, the Medical Board had entirely relied upon an inchoate opinion expressed by the Psychiatrist and no effort was made to consider the improvement made in the degree of illness after the treatment - Held: Although, the Courts and other judicial I quasi-judicial forums are ext~mely loath to interfere with the opinion of the experts, they cannot, in each and

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to

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