DEHRADUN: The plight of 21-year-old Rishabh Kaushik finally ended when he reached his home in Dehradun from Ukraine on Friday evening with his pet dog Maliboo, without whom he had refused to leave the war-torn country. The Indian Air Force (IAF)'s evacuation flight from Budapest, Hungary, had in the morning reached Ghaziabad, from where Kaushik hired a cab to reach Uttarakhand.
Rishabh's plight was highlighted by TOI on February 27, following which a Bengaluru-based pet relocation firm named Felcan Pet Relocation Worldwide offered to help him fly out of Ukraine with his pet dog. Rishabh, a third year student of software engineering in Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, had adopted Maliboo in February last year. Since then Maliboo has been living with him as a "family member".
