The Supreme Court of India has asked the Union Government to file a comprehensive reply in its suo motu case registered on the basis of a media report that Armed Forces cadets, who suffer accidents while training, are left “high and dry.”
A Bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and K.V. Viswanathan asks the government to find out if there is any scheme to provide them insurance cover, ex gratia lumpsum amount and rehabilitation. The court contemplated even bringing them under the Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS).
