Chandu Babulal. PHOTO: APP
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will lapse as a ‘goodwill gesture’ an Indian infantryman who had fled to a side of a Line of Control (LoC) to ‘escape maltreatment of his commanders’.
Chandu Babulal Chohan, 22, of a Indian army’s 37 Rashtriya Rifles had crossed a LoC into Azad Kashmir in Sep final year when tensions were using high between Pakistan and India.
Chohan had forlorn his post due to a maltreatment of his commanders, a Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a military’s media wing, pronounced in a matter on Saturday.
“He [Chohan] designedly crossed a LoC on Sep 29, 2016 and surrendered himself to Pakistan Army,” a ISPR said.
“As a gesticulate of goodwill and in delay of a efforts to say assent and peace along a LoC and Working Boundary, Sepoy Chandu Babulal Chohan has been assured to lapse to his possess nation and will be handed over to Indian authorities during Wagah on charitable grounds,” it added.
According to Hindustan Times, Chohan belongs to Borvihir encampment in Dhule district of Maharashtra. His family was pronounced to be underneath highlight given news of his disappearance pennyless final year. Chohan’s grandmother, who took caring of him after a genocide of his relatives when he was dual years old, died of a heart conflict dual days after a news broke.
The Indian army maintains that Chohan inadvertently crossed over to a Pakistani side of a LoC. However, several videos of Indian servicemen angry of indignity during a hands of their commanders have flush on amicable media recently.
In a array of videos posted on Facebook, a infantryman of India’s Border Security Force (BSF) portion in Occupied Kashmir unprotected a terrible conditions he and his associate infantry are forced to offer in. Showing a sub-standard peculiarity of food a BSF soldiers are served, Tej Bahadur Yadav complained that they mostly had to nap on dull stomachs as their autocratic officers sell off food equipment meant for them.
A deputy of India’s Central Reserve Police Force – that is deployed in India’s insurgency-hit regions, including Occupied Kashmir – also subsequently posted a video in that he complained of oppressive portion conditions. “We aren’t authorised leaves on time or given any stipend. While others applaud festivals with their families, we languish in Jharkhand, [Occupied] Kashmir and Chhattisgarh,” Constable Jeet Singh said.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 22nd, 2017.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1303179/goodwill-gesture-pakistan-convinces-deserter-soldier-return-india/