Rajasthan High Court judges Pushpendra Singh Bhati & Nupur Bhati were on a division bench and gave relief to 79-year-old former Corporal deprived of entitlements for over 40 years.
The new policy in Union Budget 2026 creates two classes of disabled soldiers: those forced out early keep their wounds tax-free, while those who stayed and served are taxed for endurance.
This was after the veteran did not get help from I-T principal commissioner for refunding taxes related to his disability pension between the assessment years 2006-2007 & 2018-2019.
Delhi HC upheld Armed Forces Tribunal's rulings, finding no legal basis to interfere with its decisions in favour of veterans suffering from service-related medical conditions.
With the Union Budget coming up, there are a host of measures India could take to improve its pension system. The first one is clarifying the difference between NPS and UPS.
Lt Gen Nilakantan says revised Entitlement Rules & Guide to Medical Officers for pensions had been revised to rationalise disability classification, quantification & granting of disability.
A detour from earlier stand of minimising litigations against veterans, govt move comes month it tweaked rules for granting of disability pensions to military personnel, causing furore.
Change in name to Impairment Relief doesn't affect 'true nature of entitlement or quantum of emoluments', says CDS. Concerns of ex-servicemen were addressed by a panel, he adds.
All-India Ex-Servicemen Welfare Association, in statement addressed to defence ministry, says new entitlement rules 'turn medical science on its head and beat logic to death'.
Russian crude delivered to India’s west coast is already at a premium of around $2.50 a barrel, while Brent is around $107 a barrel and the UAE’s Murban crude is near $119 a barrel.
Yudh Abhyaas began in 2004 focusing on counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism, while command-post exercises focused on planning and coordination for UN missions.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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