'Thrown off train for..': Army aspirant describes his ordeal

An Army aspirant's dreams were crushed more than a month ago after he was thrown off a moving train. He is now admitted at a Ludhiana hospital with a damaged spinal cord.

Twenty-three-year-old Tushar Thakur was part of an altercation with a group of youths, who were reportedly smoking cigarettes on the train. With his lower body paralysed, the Jammu man now struggles to recover and may not be able to walk.

Indian Express reported that the Government Railway Police took more than a month to file an FIR in the case.

"My son had his SSB interview scheduled in Ahmedabad. He aspired to be an Army officer. But now he might not even be able to walk ever. His spinal cord has been damaged," Thakur's father told Indian Express. "We want strict punishment for those persons who have made my son bedridden," he added.

Thakur, making little progress in the hospital, typed a statement to give to the police. "Three boys held me and pushed me out of the moving train. After falling, I don’t remember anything, but if I see those persons, I will recognise them," he wrote, Indian Express reported.

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