Taliban victim back home in coffin

NADIA: The family of Koushik Chakraborty, the cook killed in a Taliban attack in Kabul last week, brought him back home to Srinathpur, Ranaghat, in a casket on Friday afternoon.
A pall of gloom descended on the mass of people - comprising relatives and neighbours - as soon as the casket was brought down from the truck that had carried it from the Dum Dum airport.Everyone wanted to have a last look a the local boy. It created such a commotion that the casket was kept back on the truck.
After the initial rush of grief died down, the body was finally brought down from the truck for people to pay their last respects. It was later taken for cremation.
Koushik had gone to Kabul to work as a cook for Nato about 2 years back.
On July 2, he was about to enter a Nato bunker when a truck loaded with explosives exploded, leaving three Indians, including Koushik, dead. It was later confirmed that the attack had been carried out by the Taliban.
Koushik's father, Sushanta Chakraborty, said: "He had plans to come back home for good in a year's time and start a business here."
Wife Deblina, cradling their two-year-old son, Aahan, seemed too shocked to speak.
Jasbindar Singh, Asst. Consular officer, Indian embassy in Kabul had signed the coffin's certificate. Koushik 's Passport No. was J 1548855.
Her 2 years baby son Aahan was looking around with docile sight.
Debraj Mukherjee, brother in law to Koushik said," Though the Indian embassy had helped to place the body in coffin and preserve, they did not cooperate in sending the body to India."
The body arrived on Friday after ten days. It was rapped in a polithine kept in a coffin.