Hero's welcome for Cheeta
April 06, 2017  14:39
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CRPF officer Chetan Cheeta is welcomed home in Najafgar, Delhi. Cheeta was injured in Bandipora (J&K) during an encounter.

He had slipped into coma after being shot nine times during the encounter, but made a miraculous recovery and was discharged from AIIMS yesterday.

Professor of Trauma Surgery at the AIIMS Subodh Kumar said yesterday that Cheeta's recovery was nothing short of a miracle.

Cheeta was in coma for 16 days and spent a month in the Intensive Care Unit. He was discharged today, Amit Gupta, Additional Medical Superintendent at the AIIMS Trauma Centre, said.

Gupta said the Commanding Officer of the CRPFs 45th battalion in Kashmir Valley had suffered bullet injuries in his brain, right eye, abdomen, both arms, left hand and in the buttock region.

According to doctors, the hope for vision returning to Cheetas right eye is bleak although his left eye which was also injured due to splinters has been restored.


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