The Madras High Court has refused to order payment of a disability pension to an Army driver who was invalidated out of service due to epilepsy. The court said there was no material to doubt the correctness of the medical board’s report that the disability was neither attributable to, nor aggravated by military service.

The Madras High Court has refused to order payment of a disability pension to an Army driver who was invalidated out of service due to epilepsy. The court said there was no material to doubt the correctness of the medical board’s report that the disability was neither attributable to, nor aggravated by military service.

A Division Bench of Justices V.M. Velumani and R. Hemalatha pointed out that the writ petitioner K. Subbaraj, who died last year pending adjudication of the case and was replaced by his legal heir A. Banumathi, had also challenged only the denial of disability pension and not the findings given by the medical

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