New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's office on Tuesday tweeted a letter from the armed forces seeking a curb on the growing practice of seeking compensation even for lifestyle diseases. The tweet came at a time when she was facing the flak for taxing the disability pension of servicemen.

The tweet shared had an unsigned statement of the armed forces saying that the rising trend of seeking disability pensions needs to be checked. The step was taken as the army cannot have a large number of personnel with medical disabilities in their rank and file when the security challenges to the nation are on the rise.