AI loses a loyal employee in robbery

While the heist at the Mumbai airport wherein armed robbers sped with 145 kilogram of gold and silver coins continues to amaze security personnel and airport officials alike...

While the heist at the Mumbai airport wherein armed robbers sped with 145 kilogram of gold and silver coins continues to amaze security personnel and airport officials alike,there was one guard who tried to stop the robbers and eventually paid for it with his life.

S Bhosle,the 52-year-old Air India employee,who had been serving the company for the past 27 years,was cremated on Tuesday by his family members. At the Air India cargo complex,there was an obituary was put up on a blackboard by his colleagues. He was on a holiday that day. Why did he go to the airport that day, rued Swati Patil,Bhosles daughter. Bhosle is survived by wife,two daughters and a son who works as a field agent with Panasonic. Swati works at the Boisar branch of the United India Insurance Company.

The family has been a resident of the Old Air India colony in Kalina for the past six years. My son was earlier in the military but after he married I asked him to quit his job. I knew someone at Air India and thats how he got this job, Bhosles mother told Newsline.

He used to go to work even on holidays as he was a sort of a leader among his peers and he used to solve their problems, said Swati adding he had gone to withdraw money from the airports cooperative bank as he and his wife were supposed to attend a wedding in Pune.

The police have got sketches of the robbers drawn with the help of Dilip Borkar (63),an employee of National Refinery,who was hit by the robbers. I lost consciousness when they hit me. They were masked men and so I can only help with certain features, said Borkar.

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