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Soldier Eknath Shetty shown due respect; uniform, personal belongings handed over to family

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Belthangady: The uniform and other personal belongings of missing soldier Eknath shetty from Guruvayanakere were delivered to his family at his residence by defence and state police personnel on October 21 after paying due respect to the presumably dead soldier.

All his belongings were flown in a special military flight from Port Blair and were first brought to the office of superintendent of police in Mangaluru. They were placed in the district SP’s office in the morning and all present paid their due respects. Mangaluru MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, Capt. Ganesh Karnik and district in-charge minister Ramanath Rai were present on the occasion. SP Borase and many military and police personnel were also present. Later the uniform and the belongings were moved from Mangaluru SP’s office to Punjalkatte police station in a police jeep.

Soldier Eknath Shetty’s belongings were handed over to his wife Jayanthi by senior retired Air Force officer Surendra in the presence of SP Borase, Tahsildar Puttaswamy and MLA Shakuntala Shetty. Thousand of locals came forward to pay their respects on the occasion. Jayanthi, her children and few family members and friends broke down after receiving the uniform and other items.

Hundred of school children and public were lined up on the way to the residence. Around 250 vehicles took part in the procession when the belongings moved from Punjalkatte police station to Eknath Shetty’s residence.

It may be recalled the Indian air force aircraft AN-32 with 29 people on board had gone missing over the Bay of Bengal on July 22. Ships from National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) and Geological Survey of India, Samudra Ratnakar and Sagar Nidhi,were pressed into service to trace the missing aircraft. The officials from Navy, IAF, and Coast Guard made sincere efforts to trace the missing plane.

Later the IAF officials had communicated to the kin of personnel on the missing AN-32 plane that those on-board have been presumed dead.

The aircraft, an upgraded AN-32 belonging to 33 Squadron, took off from Tambaram Air Force Station in Chennai at 8.30 a.m., and was expected to land at Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 11.30 a.m., in what officials said was a “routine sortie”.

Eknath Shetty (48) joined army as a Subedar in 1985 and moved to Madras regiment later. He had served in Jammu and Kashmir, Arunachal Pradesh and Punjab with a brief stint in Sri Lanka during 1986. Though his service in army ended in 2009, he got a call from the air force to join its defence security wing. In this unit, he had served at places like Kannur, Goa and Kanpur before getting posted at Port Blair.

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