NEW DELHI: Far away from their CRPF colleagues facing stone pelters in Kashmir, two SSB men are recuperating in Chennai from grievous eye injuries they received after protesters attacked them in a similar fashion during recent clashes along the Indo-Nepal border.
While jawan S Prabhakar has lost complete vision in his left eye, his senior and 31-year-old company commander T K Hans has been meted with a cruel fate to spend all his life with only 50 per cent vision in his right eye.
The duo were injured in a cross-border stone pelting incident on March 9 when a crowd from the other side gathered along the Basai border post of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) in Lakhimpur Kheri district and clashes erupted over the construction of a culvert near the “missing” border pillar number 200 along the India-Nepal International Border.
The two SSB troops were rushed in a bleeding condition from the IB area to nearby hospitals after they were hit and have been under medical treatment since then.
The incident had erupted into a major diplomatic issue between the two countries with Nepal claiming that one of its citizen was killed in firing by SSB men during the incident. (AGENCIES)
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