Supreme Court of India
Union of India & Anr. v. Rajbir Singh
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that each one of the respondents having c been discharged from service on account of medical disease/ disability, the disability must be presumed to have been arisen in the course of service which must, in the absence of any reason recorded by the Medical Board, be presumed to have been attributable to or aggravated by military service.
Judgment, page 19
From the headnote
Pension Regulations for the Army, 1961: Regulation 173 - Disability Pension - Respondents invalided out of service on account of medical disability - Whether the disability which each one of the respondents suffered was attributable to or aggravated by military service and the Tribunal has not erred in holding the respondents entitled to claim disability pension - Held: It is for the employer to prove that the disability/disease was wholly unrelated to military service since otherwise the rules raise a presumption that the deterioration in the health of the member of service was on account of
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Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Bijender Singh v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2019 No. 1466828m Ex Cfn Narsingh Yadav v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2022 Union of India & Ors. v. Ex. Sep. R. Munusamy
Of those, 2 referred to · 1 not applicable
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