THANE: A 45-year-old Indian Army deserter, who hid his identification and had deserted his family for 13 years, was once reunited along with his family members through government at civic-run Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj sanatorium in Kalwa recently.
R Vadivelan, a gunner with the artillery wing, went absent with out leave in 2006, when he was once directed to report to Kashmir for responsibility.
The then 32-year-old Vadivelan, who spent seven years in the regiment, with postings in Delhi and Nashik, decided towards accepting his deputation and fled from home, hiding his identification and dealing as a porter at Kalyan and Ambernath railway stations to make ends meet. A leg injury, which irritated and got maggot-infested, compelled him to seek medical consideration, where he printed his identification after much persuasion.
“When a gunny bag of coconuts fell on his ft, he choose to stay away from sanatorium. But the injuries became serious, the flesh was once obvious and it was once below assault through maggots. We attached an exterior fixator to the leg, for the bones to hold. Once the bones get cast, it'll have to be got rid of,” said Dr Abhay Kulkarni, HOD of orthopaedics. He was once at sanatorium for almost two months and did not give his family main points as the sanatorium sought after to ship him home.
“We wrote to his family in Bargur taluka, Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu, but no person responded. We referred to as the district police, who contacted local police, and knowledgeable his family. The family may just no longer imagine it as they concept he should have died through now. We made a video name, when his mom, sister and uncle cried with pleasure, seeing him after virtually 13 years. They took him home tomorrow. The family said they didn't obtain our letter,” said Kundalik Amle, social service superintendent.
Vadivelan said he choose to absent himself from responsibility as he did not wish to go to Kashmir, and there was once little scope to go back home as his father, an ex-serviceman, would have got disenchanted.
“I feared serving in Kashmir, so I decided to stay back. I may just no longer go home as my father, who's from the military, would have got livid, and I feared him. I stayed at platforms and labored as a porter,” Vadivelan said.
The wound drove him to the sanatorium, where the medical group helped him to reconnect along with his family.
R Vadivelan, a gunner with the artillery wing, went absent with out leave in 2006, when he was once directed to report to Kashmir for responsibility.
The then 32-year-old Vadivelan, who spent seven years in the regiment, with postings in Delhi and Nashik, decided towards accepting his deputation and fled from home, hiding his identification and dealing as a porter at Kalyan and Ambernath railway stations to make ends meet. A leg injury, which irritated and got maggot-infested, compelled him to seek medical consideration, where he printed his identification after much persuasion.
“When a gunny bag of coconuts fell on his ft, he choose to stay away from sanatorium. But the injuries became serious, the flesh was once obvious and it was once below assault through maggots. We attached an exterior fixator to the leg, for the bones to hold. Once the bones get cast, it'll have to be got rid of,” said Dr Abhay Kulkarni, HOD of orthopaedics. He was once at sanatorium for almost two months and did not give his family main points as the sanatorium sought after to ship him home.
“We wrote to his family in Bargur taluka, Krishnagiri district, Tamil Nadu, but no person responded. We referred to as the district police, who contacted local police, and knowledgeable his family. The family may just no longer imagine it as they concept he should have died through now. We made a video name, when his mom, sister and uncle cried with pleasure, seeing him after virtually 13 years. They took him home tomorrow. The family said they didn't obtain our letter,” said Kundalik Amle, social service superintendent.
Vadivelan said he choose to absent himself from responsibility as he did not wish to go to Kashmir, and there was once little scope to go back home as his father, an ex-serviceman, would have got disenchanted.
“I feared serving in Kashmir, so I decided to stay back. I may just no longer go home as my father, who's from the military, would have got livid, and I feared him. I stayed at platforms and labored as a porter,” Vadivelan said.
The wound drove him to the sanatorium, where the medical group helped him to reconnect along with his family.
Army deserter who worked as porter reunites with family
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