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Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor suffered acute deafness in his left ear. As a result, the Indian army chief has been placed in a lower medical category just four months before retirement. A lower medical category indicates partial disability and entitlement to higher pensions. Medical records suggest that Gen Kapoor suffers from noise-induced sensorineural hearing loss (bilat). The doctors certificate, issued on November 23 last year, says during the army chiefs visit to the US in July 2009, he was closely exposed to loud noise in the form of small weapons firing and gun firing during a counter-terrorism demo by US soldiers. The general officer also fired some of the weapons in field firing range. Since then he (has) developed acute deafness in the left ear. He was unable to discriminate (between) spoken words. A normal army officer should be in SHAPE-1 SHAPE is an acronym for psychological, hearing, appendages (limbs), physical and eyes.
