Plane crash victim family gets surprise gift
Rajeevan’s daughter receives Rs100,000 for wedding from Al Adil owner
Cherikka Parambil Rajeevan, 61, one of the victims of the Dubai- Kozhikode Air India Express flight crash on August 7, was flying home to make arrangements for his daughter on the ill- fated flight. Around 70 days after the crash that left 21 including the pilot and co- pilot dead, Rajeevan’s daughter Anusree has received an unexpected wedding gift from Dubai.
The gift of Rs100,000 for Anusree, whose wedding took place on October 19, went from Dhananjay Datar, chairman
and managing director of Al Adil Trading, who had announced an aid of Rs 2 million for families of all 18 victims whose deaths were declared immediately after the crash.
As promised, Datar transferred Rs100,000 each to the families of all 19 deceased passengers ( as three more died later) last week after collecting their contacts through Gulf News, which had reported on October 7 that theywere yet to receive the promised aid. Attributing
the delay to the nonavailability of right contacts of the familymembers of the victims, Datar said he transferred the promised amount to all the families, who had grouped together on WhatsApp. Datar said he was also looking forward to extending the same support to the families of the pilot and co- pilot
On receiving the aid from Datar last week, the deceased families’ members held their first full- fledged Zoom meeting and invited Datar to thank him.
Timely help
Speaking to the still- grieving family members attending the meeting, to which Gulf News was also invited, Datar said he felt the need for supporting them since most of the passengers were flying home after being stranded in the UAE due to various reasons including job loss and salary cut. The family members thanked him for his kind gesture.
Itwas then that Nishi, wifeof Rajeevan, broke into tears and thanked him saying that the aid was a timely help for the family as they were preparing for the wedding that was postponed after Rajeevan’s death.