ENTITLEMENT OF DISABILITY PENSION IN ARMED FORCES
All ex-servicemen retired/discharged/invalided/DISMISSED in the low medical category, are entitled to DISABILITY PENSION. Even widow of non-pensioner LMC, are also entitled to the same. Law has already been settled and constantly being followed that veterans found medically and physically fit at the time of joining service & diagnosed with some disease during the service are entitled to a medical pension.
post-enrollment, any Deterioration in health shall therefore be presumed to have been caused due to service conditions as per the Entitlement Rules, 1984. without giving the reason as to why the disease is deemed to be not attributable to service, denying disability pension, clearly shows a lack of proper application of mind by the medical board. Any Disability detected in PEACE station also entitled to the same benefits as repeatedly held by the Hon’ble Supreme Court.
Further, Armed Forces-Disability Pension Entitlement Rule held that the provision for “payment of disability pension is a beneficial provision which ought to be interpreted liberally so as to benefit those who suffer disability during his tenure. no dispute with regard to the fact that when the applicant entered into service he was not suffering from any disease and that the disability in question was detected/ sustained only during the course of military service, are entitled to DISABILITY PENSION.