By Dipaneeta Das: Two households in Bengal’s south 24 Parganas are nonetheless awaiting the return of their sons two weeks after the horrific three-train crash in Odisha’s Balasore that killed 292 and injured practically a thousand.

Akshay Mistry and Dipankar Mondal have been formally declared useless following the tragic accident involving the Coromandel Specific, a stationary items practice, and the Yesvantpur Specific. Nevertheless, the households have gone from grief to despair, ready for the stays of their sons.

“We don’t know the place our boys are. We’re dropping hope by the day,” mentioned Mistry’s household, including that he couldn’t be discovered even with a DNA check.

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“We’ve visited the hospitals, the accident website, and have been in all places we will over 4 occasions. However all was in useless. The hospital administration mentioned they might launch the our bodies after DNA checks however there was no replace since,” mentioned Dipankar’s father, Ranjit Mondal.

Ranjit has been operating from pillar to put up to take dwelling his son’s stays. “I recognised my son from the trousers and the belt he was carrying. However I used to be not allowed to deliver him dwelling,” Ranjit claimed.

The Mistry household confronted the identical ordeal as they went to deliver their son dwelling for his final rites. The repetitive visits have affected the household financially.

“We borrowed from family in Mumbai. Then we took the assistance of an NGO and now we’re looking for donations from neighbours and different villagers,” Akshay Mistry’s uncle, Sanat Mistry, mentioned.

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The households approached the administration however with no luck.

The native police have been taking updates concerning the household however haven’t finished something to deliver again Dipankar, his father alleged.

The native councilor, Papiya Halder, visited the household, promising to look into the matter, Sanat Mistry mentioned, including that they haven’t heard from her since.

“Sonarpur MLA Pretty Mitra got here to see us, together with a few leaders from the ruling occasion. However we barely received any assist,” Sanat mentioned.

Akshay Mistry and Dipankar Mondal have been each residents of Baikunthapur in South 24 Parganas. They have been mates and determined to journey to south India to search for jobs regardless of opposition from their households, Sanat mentioned.

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On June 2, tons of have been killed when the south-bound Coromandel Specific crashed with a stationary items practice laden with iron ore close to the Bahanaga junction in Odisha’s Balasore district when it entered a loop line.

The affect derailed a number of coaches of the practice, which then crashed with three coaches of the Howrah-bound Yesvantpur Specific approaching the Bahanaga station.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the accident website and introduced monetary help of Rs 2 lakh for the victims’ households. “Strict motion will probably be taken towards these discovered responsible within the practice accident. Nobody will probably be spared,” he had mentioned.

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