India, Jan. 27 -- The Indian Air Force (IAF) cannot deny disability pension to its former employee merely by terming his hypertension condition to be a lifestyle disorder, held the Delhi High Court recently.

The Division Bench of Justice V Kameswar Rao and Justice Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora noted that lifestyles vary from individual to individual.

Therefore, a person suffering from hypertension cannot be shut out from disability pension merely by making assumptions about his lifestyle instead of having it properly evaluated by a medical board, which must given reasons for its conclusions, the Court said.

"It must be noted that lifestyle varies from individual to individual. Hence, a mere statement that the disease of a lifestyle disord...