Jawan bodies reach home in Bihar
CRPF sub-inspector Mithilesh Prasad Singh, one of the 27 CRPF personnel killed in the Maoist attack in Chhatisgarh’s Naryanpur on Tuesday, was to arrive at his ancestral village Matihan in Bihar’s Saran district in 20 days to conduct his daughter’s wedding. His village was seized with grief and hopelessness on Thursday when his body arrived there.
The bodies of two other slain CRPF jawans from Bihar — head constables Tarkeshwar Rai and Raju Kumar — were also sent to their homes in Vaishali and Siwan districts on Thursday. The body of a fourth CRPF jawan from Bihar, Neeraj Kumar from Arwal district, was to reach Patna later.
With Maoist-affected Bihar passing through the last hours of a two-day state-wide bandh called by the Left-wing rebels, the arrival of the slain security personnel’s bodies was a chilling reminder to people in the four districts about the deadliness of the Maoist crisis.
“My son wanted to be a soldier since his childhood and loved it so much when he got selected for the CRPF job,” said a grieving Phuleshwar Shah, the father of Raju Kumar, who had joined CRPF in 1990. The news of Tarakeshwar Rai’s death has been kept hidden from his mother, who has been under medication at the Patna Medical College and Hospital for the past several months after meeting a road accident. The three slain jawans’ bodies were brought to Patna in a special BSF aircraft.
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