DUBAI: An Indian businessman has pledged Rs 100crore for the family of police personnel killed in Jammu and Kashmir terror attack in India on February 14, 2019.
Sudhakar Rao, founder, and chairman of United Arab Emirates-based Gemini Group, announcing the help said that they are doing their bit.
“While a drop in the ocean of the response required, doing our bit – my wife Radha, brother Prabhakar & I have pledged AED 500,000 for the #PulwamaMartyrs families through the #GeminiGlobalHopeFoundation. I humbly urge we all do what we can for the cause,” the businessman’s Facebook post read.
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AED500,000 amounts to roughly 100 cr Indian rupees.
Rao’s Gemini Global Hope Foundation, a non-government, and the real estate developer’s corporate social responsibility arm will donate the money for the grieving families through the government of India.
Gemini Group is the Middle East based diversified company into business activities of Real Estate, Trading in Oil field Products and Power Products catering to Oil & Gas, Industrial & Infrastructure Sectors.
In the worst-ever attack since militancy erupted in the state, at least 43 Central Reserve Police Force personnel died and many others were injured on February 14 afternoon when a suicide bomber belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammed rammed his vehicle packed with an improvised explosive device (IED) into a bus carrying personnel. The incident took place around 3.15 p.m., triggering a deafening explosion.
The JeM later claimed responsibility for the horror and released a video clip of the suicide bomber, a ‘commander’ identified as Adil Ahmad Dar, which it claimed was shot before the young man carried out the strike in Lethpora, about 30 km from here. – With input from agencies
