Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 421 · Decided 25 June 2014
Sukhvinder Singh v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 421 · [2014] 8 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5605/2010
- Decided
- 25 June 2014
- Bench
- VIKRAMAJIT SEN, SHIVA KIRTI SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Service Law - Pension - Disability pension - Entitlement A B - A combatant soldier, recruited in Indian Army - After 1 year presented before Medical Board, who found that the C incumbent was invalided out of service with disability of 6 to 10% on account of hearing impairment - Further held him ground that the disability was neither attributable nor aggravated by Military Services and since the disability was not assessed at 20% or above - o Held: Any disability not recorded at the time of recruitment must be presumed to have been caused subsequently and unless proved to the contrary, to
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