Denied pension over schizophrenia, Orissa High Court restores it for retired CRPF man

The petitioner was a CRPF employee who retired on medical invalidation grounds in 1999 after he was found to have schizophrenia. The authorities later rejected his disability pension saying that it was a ‘non-classified’ disease.Holding that the petitioner’s claim could not be rejected merely because schizophrenia was not a classified disease, the Orissa High Court has quashed a 2011 order rejecting a former CRPF personnel’s claim for disability pension, directing the authorities to allow the pension and release the arrears.