D.B. CIVIL SPECIAL APPEAL (WRIT) NO.1099/2008 Nahar Singh Vs. Union of India & Ors. Date of Order :: July 22, 2008. HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MR.NARAYAN ROY HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE MOHAMMAD RAFIQ Mr. Ganesh Meena for the appellant(s). *** Heard learned counsel for the appellant. This appeal is directed against the judgment of the learned Single Judge dated 3.9.2007 by which claim of the writ petitioner-appellant for grant of disability pension, was rejected as the same was filed after an inordinate delay. The learned counsel for the appellant has argued that the writ petitioner, for the first time, was informed about the rejection of the claim for grant of disability pension on 6.6.2003 and for the period between the date of discharge i.e.23.8.1967 and till the receipt of the aforesaid communication, he had all along been representing his case before the authorities. It was argued that the medical board had assessed his disability to be 30% for ten years reducible to 20% and therefore, the appellant is entitled to disability pension. The learned Single Judge of this Court has dismissed the writ petition observing that since the appellant served only for 5 years and 208 days, and as per the medical board, his disability was assessed at less than 20% and since the petitioner was discharged on 23.8.1967 and writ petition was filed on 5.7.2004 after enormous delay of 37 years, relief as prayed for, cannot be granted. We thus do not find any merit in this appeal. It is accordingly dismissed. (MOHAMMAD RAFIQ),J. (NARAYAN ROY),CJ. Skant/-