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The judgment comes on an appeal filed by a sailor for disability compensation The Supreme Court on Wednesday said a heart ailment cannot be included as a disability under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act. “Section 2(i) of the Act takes into account visual disability, locomotor disability, mental illness, mental retardation, hearing impairment and leprosy. A heart ailment is not covered within the definition of disability in the Act. We would hesitate to import words, which the legislature chose not to, in their definition of disability,” a three-judge Bench of Justices S.K. Kaul, Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy observed.

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