Letter to AG About Maj Pancholi

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Lt Gen Raj Kadyan, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd)Chairman262, Sector-17A, Gurgaon – 122 001Mobile: 09811228878Email: [email protected]

IESM/ECHS/11 17 Nov2011

Dear General,

I am attaching an account of Major Pancholi’s ill health. He served in9 SIKH before being boarded out with 50% disability incurred due toService hazards. It will be a befitting gesture for the Army to take care of his medical problems in whatever manner considered appropriate. It willsend a very positive signal that the system cares.

With best regards, Yours sincerely,

Raj KadyanLt Gen JP NehraAdjutant GeneralIntegrated Headquarters of the MoD (Army)South BlockNew Delhi – 110 011



War Wounded Battle Casualty Fighting

Cancer

1. He was fatally wounded and taken for dead during operations

in Northern Sector. He was stacked amongst the dead bodies and

lucky to survive the ordeal to tell his horrific experience. He

defied odds and was snatched from the jaws of death by timely

retrieval and medical attention during operations againstPakistan. And 40 years later now at the age of 65, he is fighting

again but this time the enemy is GLIOMA a deadly brain cancer

with grave prognosis and devastating effects.

2. Major Sujeet Kumar Pancholi was commissioned in 9 Sikh after

graduating from IMA as direct entry cadet in 1968. Grandson of

Rai Bahadur Kesri Singh Pancholi and son of Mr M N Pancholi,

Major Sujeet belonged to an illustrious family of erstwhile Mewar

State (Now Udaipur). His father was an IAS officer and

Grandfather was Deewan of princely states. He did his schooling

at famous Vidya Bhawan School and was attending engineering

college at Pilani (Raj) after graduating when the adventure and

nationalistic bug caught him to join the Armed Forces. If chosen

otherwise, he could have joined any other elite civil service.

3. The serious battle wounds suffered by him in Valley ops took

serious toll of his physical strength and it took all his will power

and grit to fight the injuries while under treatment in various

Military Hospitals. Downgraded in Medical Classification andhandicapped to cope with pressure of active duties entailed upon

Infantrymen, he was INVALIDED OUT of active service in 1976

with 50 % disability. An Acting Major but Substantive Captain.

4. No further sheltered appointments. No side stepping to any

Paramilitary or other Govt service. Just bye bye and some dole for

war wounded battle casualty! 5. He fought for his survival in civil life. Got married late. Tried

hand at various jobs at Udaipur and after 40 years of his defyingdeath and surviving in an ungrateful Nation and civil society who



forget their VETERANS, he is today lying in ICU of a NON ECHS

EMPANNELED civil hospital at Udaipur ,suffering from a deadly

form of brain cancer. 6. The ECHS extended help to him at Delhi for initial surgical

intervention and follow up treatment for Radio and Chemo Therapy at their empanelled facility in NCR. But how long a Non

Delhi family survives at Delhi? (As Mirza Ghalib had rightly said

long back, “ Mana ki dilli mein rahenge per khayenge kya ?”) 7. Ex Major Sujeet (Substantive Captain!) is suffering but not

defeated? I met him today in ICU of GBH American Hospital,

Udaipur. A rare lucid interval had flashed in his otherwise

tormented and hazy brain so he recognized me and called me out

by my pet name, CP. (He is my school senior and old familyfriend). And then tears rolled from his eyes when I told him that

his younger daughter is confident to face SSB at Bhopal next

week. He is not able to talk. He will relapse back to his mental

state of stupor. But whenever such short lucid gaps appear (if at

all they appear) then his two unmarried daughters and his

beloved wife will be uppermost in his thoughts. He had a healthy

respect for the Armed Forces in spite of his early severance from

service and lack of alternative employment offered to him by theNation. The daughter is determined to face SSB next week. She

understands the irony and odds for her beloved father.

8. The exact dates, nature and location of Military Operations

have been omitted by me for apparent reasons. Let us pray for

Veteran Sujeet Kumar Pancholi and his family.

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