Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 408 · Decided 2 July 2013
Dharamvir Singh v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 408 · [2013] 8 S.C.R. 1119
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4949/2013
- Decided
- 2 July 2013
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
A B Armed Forces - Disability pension c... Entitlement to - Presumption of sound physical and mental condition upon C entering service in absence of disabilities or disease noted or recorded at the time of entrance - Appellant, Sepoy in Indian Army, boarded out of service on ground of 20% be suffering from "Generalised seizure (Epilepsy)" - Medical Board of the Army D opined that the disability was not related to military service - Disability pension accordingly not granted to appellant - Justification - Held: A member of the Armed Forces is presumed to have been in
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