FOR DISABILITY PENSION BENEFICIARIES NOT INVALIDED OUT AND THE BATTLE CASUALTIES NOT GIVEN GALLANTRY AWARD".
The Genesis of this whole policy U Turn, with regards to doing away with Income Tax Exemption to Disability Pension beneficiaries, who have not been invalided out from the Army, Navy & AF and to those Battle Casualties not been given Gallantry Awards, is total corruption, nepotism and falsifying records and events by selected few. Just recently a Maj Gen Rank Officer of the Army was Court Martialed, for falsely and fraudulently claiming disability pay benefits. As regards Battle Casualty Pay, If you remember, Pulwama Attack and developments thereafter, than you would certainly recollect, a Brigadier, a serving Bde Cdr, who shamelessly undertook a trip to the site of the Pulwama attack, just for site seeing. This Officer, was caught unaware, when Terrorist fired on his picnic party from a building across the Pulwama incident location.This cheat Brig, got scared and fell, injuring his foot. A word was spread by his cheat and corrupt colleagues, that the Brigadier was leading from the front and in that action, he has been shot on his foot, which unfortunately was a total blatant and brazen untruth and false. That Brig had just sprained his ankle, that to, not in any operational outing, away from his command and control Head Quarter. He had no military business to to be at that spot/location. He unfortunately became a Battle Casualty.
Laughable and Shameful, isn't it for the Northern Army Cdr, who is aspiring to become the next Indian Army Chief, which he will certainly not become now.
Gentleman, with these type of corrupt and cheat officers and with officers who witness this corruption and just don't speak out or complain, the entire organization is losing all it's benefits gradually and will suffer humiliation everyday like this in future also.
The Armed Forces are in this pathetic state of affairs, because they, if not for anything, are morally totally corrupt. The implementation order will come into effect from this financial year, Banks will start deducting income tax from now on.
*COBRA*