New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has directed the Union government to release disability pension to a retired nursing officer who served in the army for over 36 years.

The petitioner, Dropadi Tripathi, who joined the army in 1969 and retired in 2006, was found to be suffering from obesity and hypertension.

The Release Medical Board (RMB) had assessed her disability at 1–5 per cent for obesity and 30 per cent for hypertension.

Tripathi had applied for disability pension on the grounds of ailments that led to her release from service, but her claim was rejected by the authorities and later upheld by the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) in April 2023.

In its judgment, a division bench of Justices C. Hari Shankar and Om Prakash Shukla set aside the AFT order, holding that the tribu

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