Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 402 · Decided 12 May 2015
Union of India & ORS. v. Manjeet Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 402 · [2015] 6 S.C.R. 192
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4357/2015
- Decided
- 12 May 2015
- Bench
- M.Y. EQBAL, AMITAVA ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Pension Regulations for the Army, 1961: Regulation C 173; Army Rules, 1954: rr. 5, 9 and 14 - Disability pension - Entitlement for- Held: There is a statutory presumption, that the disease/disability for which a member of Army service is boarded out, had been contracted by him during his tenure, D reasons recorded by the Medical Board- Burden to disprove the correlation of disability with the Army service has been cast on the authorities- In the instant case, the Medical Board computed the composite disability of the respondent to be E 20% - No reason was cited by Board in support
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