Disability Pension for Armed Forces Personnel in India: Complete Guide to Eligibility, Medical Board, Broad-Banding, Appeals and AFT Remedy

Disability pension for Armed Forces personnel is payable where a disability is attributable to or aggravated by military service and satisfies the applicable pensionary rules. In many cases, if no disease or disability was noted at the time of enrolment/commissioning, and the disability arose during service, courts have applied a presumption in favour of the...

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Disability Pension for Armed Forces Personnel in India: Law, Broad-Banding, Medical Boards and Case Law

Disability pension for Armed Forces personnel is payable where a disability is attributable to or aggravated by military service and is accepted in accordance with the applicable Pension Regulations and Entitlement Rules. It ordinarily consists of two components: service element and disability element. The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that, where no disease or disability...

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