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Union of India and Others v. Vijay Pal and Anr.

Punjab & Haryana HC9 Jul 2025CWP/18706/2025

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CWP No.18706 of 2025; High Court of Punjab & Haryana at Chandigarh; decision 09.07.2025; oral order; Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, J; Meenakshi I. Mehta, J; disability pension; rounding off 20% to 50%; Armed Forces Tribunal order dated 14.09.2023; Bijender Singh v. Union of India 2025 SCC OnLine SC 895; Union of India v. Ram Avtar 2014 SCC OnLine SC 1761; res integra; writ petition dismissed; implementation within two months.

What did the court decide?

Writ petition by Union of India dismissed; impugned AFT order rounding off disability pension from 20% to 50% upheld and directed to be implemented within two months. ¶23

Union of India and Others Vs Vijay Pal and Anr. — Punjab & Haryana HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

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Outcome

Writ petition by Union of India dismissed; impugned AFT order rounding off disability pension from 20% to 50% upheld and directed to be implemented within two months.

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Issue for consideration

Whether the order of the Armed Forces Tribunal rounding off the disability element from 20% to 50% for grant of disability pension calls for interference in writ jurisdiction.

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Court's answer

The question raised is no longer res integra, being covered by the Apex Court judgments in Bijender Singh v. Union of India and others (2025 SCC OnLine SC 895), which affirms Union of India and others vs. Ram Avtar (2014 SCC OnLine SC 1761).

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Ratio / Principle

As per the Apex Court rulings relied upon, the rounding off clause for grant of disability pension is approved: 50% where the disability is less than 50%, 75% where the disability is from 50% to 75%, and 100% where the disability is more than 75%.

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Key takeaways

The order of the AFT rounding off the disability pension from 20% to 50% does not call for interference; accordingly the writ petition, being without merit, is dismissed and the impugned order is to be implemented within two months.ratio¶23

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Punjab & Haryana High Court (CWP No.18706 of 2025, decided 09.07.2025, oral order by Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, J; Meenakshi I. Mehta, J) dismissed the Union of India's writ petition challenging the Armed Forces Tribunal order dated 14.09.2023 whereby the disability element was rounded off from 20% to 50% for grant of disability pension. Holding the issue no longer res integra in view of Bijender Singh v. Union of India and others, 2025 SCC OnLine SC 895, which affirmed Union of India and others vs. Ram Avtar, 2014 SCC Online SC 1761, the Court applied the approved rounding off scale — 50% where disability is less than 50%, 75% where it is 50% to 75%, and 100% where it exceeds 75% — found no ground for interference, dismissed the petition, and directed implementation of the impugned order within two months.

Union of India and Others v. Vijay Pal and Anr.

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