India | Updated May 27, 2008 at 08:53am IST

12-year-old pays for Gurjar protests with his eye

Swati VashishthaSwati Vashishta, CNN-IBN

Jaipur: Among the 35 Gurjar protestors who have died in the police firing, there is a little boy in Bayana who is injured and has lost an eye.

Out of curiosity, the 12-year-old boy, Chuttan went to the railway tracks where the Gurjar protestors were meeting. He wanted to see what all the grown-ups were doing with batons in their hands.

He was looking for water when the police opened fire. All he recalls is something slicing open his right eye and after bouts of unbearable pain, Chuttan woke up in a hospital.

“I went to see that the drama. There were lots of people and police. I was having water when the police fired and I got injured,” says Chuttan.

The little boy wonders when he would be able to say goodbye to the hospital and when the food his mother cooks will replace the biscuits he is eating now. And what worries him is whether he would be able to do what he loves most, going to the city and catching a movie.

His brother now repents not bringing Chuttan to Jaipur as he had earlier planned.

“I was bringing him to Jaipur on May 17th with me but then we dropped the idea. In his last summer break also, he was with me. This time I did not bring him. Little did I know that this would happen,” says Chuttan's brother, Mukat Singh.

While the doctors say he's lost his right eye for good, Chuttan will undergo a surgery on Monday.

Whether the Gurjars get something out of the agitation or not remains to be seen. However, Chuttan the youngest victim has yet to come to terms with what he has lost forever.

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