Click to play videoNew Delhi: More than 26,000 army personnel were being terminated from service in phases by the Army HQ on medical grounds some of them had already lost their jobs but now the Delhi High Court has ordered their reinstatement within a deadline of one month. Reason the termination was not through proper procedure.
"Without setting up an invalidating medical board, the army constituted only relief medical board and just discharged everybody, so the discharge has been held illegal by the HC," says lawyer Abhik Kumar.
The court ordered that all of them should be paid back wages and benefits .The termination had been on in a phased manner from April 2007. Those who challenged the order alleged the layoffs were based on unfair medical reports.
"All my blood test reports are normal, I have no symptoms and I am as fit as any other person" says havaldar Pradip Kumar Saha.
The two judge bench also ruled that those who have taken their retirement benefits should refund it within a month before re-entering service.
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