{
  "id": 16999178,
  "title": "Grant war injury pension to Kargil veteran: Top court",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/grant-war-injury-pension-to-kargil-veteran-top-court",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-29T02:27:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hindustan Times",
    "slug": "hindustan-times",
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/grant-war-injury-pension-to-kargil-veteran-top-court-101793215343767.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Bengaluru The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Union government to grant “war injury pension” to an Indian Army veteran who had developed rheumatoid arthritis during his posting at Kargil, ruling that the government cannot interpret its own policy in a way that “contradicts its plain wording” or leads to “arbitrary, irrational or discriminatory outcomes”",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}