Fortune favours the brave: Saluting Chetan Cheetah and his military wife

The brave CRPF commandant's equally brave wife, who has stood by her husband like a rock through his ordeal, says that her final reward would be when he dons his uniform again.

Fortune favours the brave. This one line is sufficient to define the brave Central Reserve Police Force Commandant Chetan Cheetah. After being shot nine times during an encounter with terrorists in Kashmir, he made a remarkable recovery and was finally discharged from AIIMS on Wednesday. For his wife Uma, it is only half the battle won. "My final reward would be the day he dons his uniform and returns to work," she says.

Chetan Cheetah is a fighter

Cheetah was admitted to hospital on February 14 after being airlifted from Srinagar. He was admitted in an extremely critical condition. Doctors attending to him said that he displayed resolve, and this helped him fight the battle.

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It was a miracle says doctors

It was a miracle, doctors at AIIMS said. He was in coma for 16 days and spent a month in ICU, Professor Subodh Kumar of the trauma surgery department said.
Cheetah, who was heading the 45th battalion in Kashmir sustained bullet injuries in his brain, right eye, abdomen and arms.

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The Army wife

His wife Uma Singh stood by him like a rock. She said she knew her husband would fight it out and win this battle too. "I know him from his school days. He is a man of commitment and is a fighter," she said. Uma recollected that fateful day when she joined her husband in the air ambulance in Srinagar. His eyes were closed and he was unconscious. "But the moment I saw that he was breathing, I knew he will make it," she said.

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I believed he would fight back

"The doctors would tell me he is in acoma. Whenever I would hold his hands he would respond by moving his fingers. That made me believe that he would fight and come back to me," she said.

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He will don the uniform again

"The fight for me is not over as yet," Uma says. "There is a lot of work remaining to be done. For me, the final reward would be when he will don his uniform again and resume work," Uma says.

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