LPA No. 433 of 2010 (O&M) 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. LPA No. of 2010 (O&M) Date of decision 27 .7.2010 Union of India ... Appellant Versus Ex. Sep. Baljit Singh ... Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE A.N. JINDAL Present: Ms. Geeta Singhwal ,Advocate for the appellant 1.To be referred to the Reporter or not ? 2.Whether the judgement should be reported in the Digest ? M.M.KUMAR, J. The instant appeal filed by the Union of India under Clause X of the Letters Patent is directed against judgement dated 16.9.2009 passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court while allowing the writ petition of the petitioner- respondent. The question of law considered by the learned Single Judge is whether the physical injury suffered during the service leading to various diseases and down grading of medical category CEE would entitle an enrolled officer to claim disability pension although he has been discharged on administrative grounds. The counsel for the appellant as well as for the petitioner had agreed before the learned Single Judge that the controversy was covered by the judgement of this Court rendered in the case of Jaggar Singh v. Union of India and others (CWP No. 15227 of 2007 decided on 11.5.2009).The writ petitioner- respondent was enrolled in the Army on 4.10.1990 and he completed his training successfully. He suffered physical injury which ultimately resulted in sufferance of various diseases. LPA No. 433 of 2010 (O&M) 2 Accordingly, he was degraded to medical category CEE and was discharged on the ground that he has become undesirable and his services were no longer required. He was not brought before the Release Medical Board and he remained missing from 1995 and could be found only in the year 2002. His representation for grant of disability pension was rejected by the appellants and the order was challenged before the learned Single Judge. Having heard the learned counsel we are of the considered view that an injury suffered by the Army Officer during service would be imputable to military service and therefore it would bring him entitlement to disability pension irrespective of the fact whether he has been discharged on administrative grounds on a later date. The matter is covered in favour of the petitioner- respondent by a judgement in the case Jaggar Singh (supra) and it was conceded before the learned Single Judge by the counsel for the appellant. Accordingly, we find that there is no room to interfere in the view taken by the learned Single Judge. The appeal is wholly without merit and the same is dismissed. (M.M.Kumar) Judge (A. N. Jindal ) 27.7.2010 Judge okg