Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1059 · Decided 20 August 2009
Secretary, Ministry of Defence & Others v. Damodaran A.V. (Dead) Through LRS. & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1059 · [2009] 13 S.C.R. 416
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5678/2009
- Decided
- 20 August 2009
- Bench
- DALVEER BHANDARI, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
~ Pension Regulations for the Army, 1961 - Regulations C 173 and 423 - Disability pension - Entitlement to - Army officer diagnosed to be suffering from "Schizophrenia" - Medical Board opined that disability of the officer was neither attributable service nor connected to the service, but was constitutional in nature and accordingly D recommended him to be invalided out of service in medical category "EEE" (Psychological) - ·Writ petition by LRs of the officer praying for grant of disability pension - High Court
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