Eighty four-year-old Chakravorty, has been waiting for his 20 per cent disability pension since 1958, after retiring from the Rajput Regiment on account of ``benign essential hypertension''.

The Army which had been silent all these years, on September 11 wrote to Chakravorty that his claim for grant of disability pension was sent to the chief controller of defence accounts. Allahabad, on May 1958 and later rejected on July 31, 1958. The Army, in its letter, said Chakravorty had been ``informed'' about the decision in a letter dated August 13, 1958.

Chakravorty is obviously hurt and angry with the news. ``I have been writing to them inquiring about my pension. But I didn't get a single letter fromthem. Only on Thursday, I got to know about it when I got the Army's letter,'' he said.

Chakravorty first joined the Army in the 25th Battalion of Bihar Regiment in September 1941 and was finally discharged in 1958 after 16 years and 300-odd days of service. He has fought two wars, one with Pakistan in 1947-48 and the other with China in 1962, when the Army recalled him after retirement.

The 84-year-old and his wife have not lost hope, and for good reasons. The Orissa State Ex-Services League has taken up the case after it came to light.