Cardozo, who fought during the 1971 India-Pakistan war and had used his khukri to cut his leg off after being severely injured, was speaking to ET about changes in the disability pension. He also commented on the army’s posts on social media site, Twitter, which claimed that several retired personnel were misusing the benefit. The army had paraphrased some paragraphs of a letter- mentioning Cardozo’s bravery and injury- issued by the Army Headquarters on the disability pension matter and posted them on Twitter. Cardozo added that the first priority for disability pension should obviously be for those who are ‘invalidated’ from service due to a disability. “Those who have suffered from disability not received during war or operations, should also be considered and treated fairly.

Source: Economic Times July 04, 2019 02:41 UTC