Manoj Verma, Kolkata Police commissioner, called on sergeant Debasish Chakraborty at his house in Howrah on Sunday to inquire about his well-being and find out how he has been responding to treatment on the left eye.
Chakraborty, 37, the officer-in-charge of Kolkata Police’s cyber cell, east division, was on duty at 11 Furlong Road during the Nabanna March on August 27 when a brick came flying from the protesters, smashed his car’s windshield and hit his left eye.
Chakraborty told his colleagues he couldn’t see anything from his left eye when he was rushed to a private eye-care hospital and later admitted.
Over the next three days, he was under the supervision of a team of doctors who remained tentative about the officer regaining vision in his left eye.
On September 1, four days after Chakraborty was injured, Kolkata police took the officer of the 2015 batch to a private hospital in Hyderabad for specialised treatment. The officer has been under treatment ever since.
On Sunday, Verma along with senior officers of the Howrah (rural) police visited Chakraborty at his house in Shyamshunder Chowk in Bauria, Howrah, and spoke to him and his family. Officers said the Kolkata Police chief wanted to know what challenges Chakraborty was facing in his recovery and how he was responding to the treatment.
Verma also spoke to Chakraborty’s family and assured help and cooperation of the Kolkata Police in seeing the young officer resume duties, fit.
“He has an injury in his eye. I came to meet him along with other senior officers. He is recovering from the injury and we are very hopeful,” Verma said while interacting with reporters outside the house.
“Rejoining duty will take time but his recovery is good,” Verma said.
Besides Chakraborty, sergeant Sourav Saha of Kolkata Police’s detective department sustained eye injuries, and constables NabakumarMondal and Ujjwal DeySarkar received injuries on the head and eye and head, respectively, during the Nabanna March.
Homeguard Debasish Kundu was injured in his right eye.
The police said 31others who were injured during the march were discharged from hospitals after treatment.
