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Former BSF man alleges neglect

G. Jayalal

KOLLAM: A former Border Security Force jawan, G. Jayalal, 41, has alleged that the government is ignoring his claim for a job.

He was seriously injured in action in Jammu and Kashmir. It was during a stint with the 132 Battalion of the BSF that Jayalal was injured in an encounter with terrorists in the Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir. He sustained serious bullet injuries on his right hand and never recovered even after four years of treatment.

Owing to the condition, the BSF medical board recommended discharging him from service. He had served the BSF for 17 years.

He had been continuously submitting memoranda from 2004 to Chief Ministers, Ministers and bureaucrats.

During treatment at home in Ayur, the then Collector Asha Thomas had called on him to entrust the State government’s financial aid for his treatment. He told mediapersons here on Friday that the pension he was getting was not enough to sustain his family comprising aged parents, his wife and two children.

Human rights activist Odanavattom Vijayaprakash, who brought the jawan before the media, said the government ignoring a jawan who made a valuable sacrifice for the nation was a human rights violation.

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