SC to hear case of cadets disabled during training
New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of difficulties faced by cadets, who were medically discharged from military institutes on account of disabilities suffered during training programmes.
A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and R Mahadevan will hear the case on Monday.
The motion was registered on August 12 after a media report flagged the issue of the cadets, who were once part of training at the nation's top military institutes such as the National Defence Academy (NDA) and Indian Military Academy (IMA).
According to the report, there are around 500 officer cadets who have been medically discharged from these military institutes since 1985, due to varying degrees of disability incurred during training, and are now staring at mounting medical bills with an ex-gratia monthly payment that's far short of what they need.P7...
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