Union Of India Through Its Secretary vs Sgt Girish Kumar And Ors on 12 February, 2026
20. This Court has, in a consistent line of decisions6, recognised
that right to receive disability pension is a valuable right and
once found due, the benefit of the same has to be given from the
date it became due. The same cannot be curtailed by restricting
6
K.J.S. Bhuttar v. Union of India & Anr., (supra); Davinder Singh v. Union of India & Ors. (supra);
Madan Prasad Sinha v. Union of India & Ors., (supra); Piyush Bahuguna (Order dated 25.03.2022
passed in Diary No.10713/2021) and Bijender Singh v. Union of India (supra)
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the benefit to a period of three years preceding the filing of the
original application. In the absence of any compelling reason to
take a different view, we find no justification to depart from the
view consistently taken by this Court.