Martyred Army jawan’s body reaches Nadia home

TEGATTA (NADIA): As the coffin-covered body of Army jawan Subodh Ghosh (24) arrived at his home at Tehatta’s Raghunathpur village in Nadia after 11.15pm on Sunday, a wave of villagers rushed to it as wails rent the air.
The body was brought to Panagarh air base by an Army flight around 4pm. After a guard of honour, Army personnel moved with it towards Raghunathpur.

Since afternoon, villagers had been gathering outside Subodh’s house and along the pucca road leading to it. They had also erected a stage near his home and decorated it with Subodh’s photograph and flowers.

Family sources said Subodh’s body would be taken to Palasy burning ghat, about 35km away.
As Subodh’s mother wept inconsolably, his wife Anindita said: “He had assured me that he would come home during the ‘annaprasan’ of our 3-month-old daughter.”
The family and residents demanded a local road be renamed after Subodh. His father Gouranga sought economic help for the family.
TMC MP Mahua Moitra and Ranaghat’s BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar separately went to meet the family. Sarkar said the demands of the family would be looked into.
Subodh, a jawan of 59 Medium Regiment, was killed in Pakistani firing in J&K’s Baramulla on Friday.