EX-SEP. SATMINDER SINGH Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) EX -Sepoy Shri Satminder Singh has filed the present writ petition under Articles 226/ of the Constitution of India against the respondents and he has prayed that suitable direction be issued to the respondents to grant him the benefit of disability pension with effect from 23.3.1986 onwards besides interest.

(2.) THE case set up by the petitioner is that he was born on 30.11.1960. He joined the army on 9.3.1979. He rendered service in J & K and also participated in Operations Harnet. He was invalidated out from service on 22.3.1986 on medical ground. He was eligible to the disability pension but it has been declined to him on the ground that the disease suffered by him is not attributable to the army service.

(3.) I have heard Shri B.S.Sehgal. learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and Shri Gurpreet Singh, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the respondents and with their assistance have gone through the record of the case.