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Selfless service

Sir, — The report `For him, wife and daughter could wait' (Sept 12) points to the selfless sacrifice of Jaswant Singh Aneja, a retired Army officer, who rescued a number of passengers from the Rajdhani Express which derailed on September 9 near Rafiganj in Bihar.

For railway men, such operations are considered as ``all in a day's work''. One such example is A.C. Chatterjee, a septuagenarian leading a retired life in Kolkata. When Mr. Chatterjee was the Divisional Mechanical Engineer of Central Railway, the train in which he was travelling with his wife and two children met with an accident. Without caring for his family, he went about rescuing passengers and supervising the relief. When at last he found time to attend to his family, he found that they were trapped in the wreckage and the delay in rescuing them cost the lives of his two children.

V. Anand,

Chennai

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