Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 114 · Decided 13 February 2015
Union of India & ANR. v. Rajbir Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 114 · [2015] 2 S.C.R. 183
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2904/2011
- Decided
- 13 February 2015
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Pension Regulations for the Army, 1961: Regulation 173 - Disability Pension - Respondents invalided out of service A B on account of medical disability - Whether the disability which each one of the respondents suffered was attributable C to or aggravated by military service and the Tribunal has disability pension - Held: It is for the employer to prove that the disability/disease was wholly unrelated to military service since otherwise the rules raise a presumption that the D deterioration in the health of the member of service was on account of military service or aggravated by it-+-
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