For more than a week, 56-year-old Inder Singh Rathore, father of Mahendra Singh Rathore the co-pilot of theBoeing that went down in Lagos, Nigeria, is awaiting for his son's body at their ancestral home in Bikaner. Rathore is upset with the dilly dally of Central authorities who have not been able to expedite the process for arrival of body.
All 153 people on board the Boeing aircraft, apart from over 40 others on the ground, were killed when the Dana Airlines plane crashed in Lagos on June 3.
Rathore, who works in a private company in Kolkata, is in Bikaner along with his wife Pushpa Rathore (52), daughter-in-law Isha Rathore (32) and seven-year old grandson Surya Pratap Singh. He is trying his best to console the family members and is praying for early arrival of his son's body.
"It has been more than a week. My younger son had also submitted his blood sample at a laboratory in Delhi, a few days after the accident, for any DNA test to confirm the body, but still there are no concrete information on when my son's body would arrive here," a devastated Rathore said angrily.
He said at least the chief minister of Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot, can speak to the ministry concerned to pursue the matter seriously.
Rathore said his family is in touch with the officials of Dana airlines. "I spoke to them last evening and they confirmed that they have got the DNA report. But did not say much on when the body will reach here," he said, adding that initially the authorities of Dana Airlines with whom he was in touch assured him that the body will reach Delhi in the next four days.
"Nobody from the Union government has said a single word after my son's death. I would request them to do the needful to ensure the body of my son reaches here," Rathore said.
It is getting difficult for the aggrieved family as Rathore said his wife Pushpa and his daughter-in-law Isha are almost in unconscious state. "A doctor is at our Bikaner residence round the clock to look after them," Rathore said.
"Initially the news of his death came as a shock for us. Now we are yet to get his body for the funeral rites. What should I do? I cannot see tears in their eyes for a long time," he said.
On his deceased son, Rathore said: "He was born in Bikaner. When he was one-year-old, we moved to Kolkata where I started working in a private company. He studied in Kolkata and later worked for two private airlines in India. Four years ago, he went to Florida (US) and got a CPL licence. He was working with Dana Airlines for the past two years."
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