Two weeks after he was injured in the Pulwama terror attack that left 44 of his colleagues dead, CRPF constable Awadhesh Kumar on Thursday returned to his native village here and celebrated his daughter's birthday.
The trooper received a grand welcome at his village Aabadi Sakhni on Wednesday evening as he was greeted by a large number of locals as well as political leaders including those from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Not willing to speak about terror attack, Kumar said he was happy to celebrate the birthday of his daughter, who turned two on Thursday.
"I am very happy that I am celebrating the second birthday of my beloved daughter Jyoti," he said.
Asked about his injuries, the CRPF constable who had joined the force in 2011 said, "My head and hands were injured. Now I am better and ready to leave home on call (of duty)."
Forty CRPF personnel were killed in a suicide attack in Jammu & Kashmir's Pulwama district on February 14 orchestrated by Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM). Following the incident, India bombed and destroyed JeM's biggest training camp in Balakot in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, about 80-km from the Line of Control (LoC).
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jawan's father too was overjoyed to see his son back home.