Feelings ran high as Colonel Munindra Nath Rai, killed by aggressors on Tuesday in Kashmir, was let go at the Brar Square cemetery in Delhi Cantonment on Thursday.
Rai's 11-year-old little girl weeped as she yelled her dad's regiment's old rallying call, then raised her right hand to salute him for the last time as she blast out in tears. Colonel Rai's wife was hopeless, while his six-year-old child couldn't most likely fathom the misfortune.
Pay tribute to Colonel M N Rai, martyred in J&k :
Alka, Rai's eldest little girl whose battle cry prompted the Gorkha officers and fighters rehashing it a few times over, said she was a glad girl. "My dad was a bold father," Alka said.
The 39-year-old colonel of the 2/9 Gurkha Rifles was killed by aggressors on Tuesday in Tral, a day after he was respected for his boldness with a Yudh Seva Medal on Republic Day. He was ordering 42 Rashtriya Rifles force in Kashmir Valley.
Day in the wake of accepting courage decoration, Col Munindra Nath Rai killed in J&k gunbattle
Col Rai is made due by his wife Priyanka, and three kids :
Col Rai's burial service fire was lit by his senior sibling, Col D N Rai, who excessively is an officer of the Gurkha Rifles. A second sibling, Y N Rai, is with the CRPF, and was among the individuals who maintained wounds when they battled activists amid the terrorist assault on Raghunath Temple in 2002.
Armed force boss General Dalbir Singh, a kindred Gurkha officer, was among the individuals who paid tributes to Col Rai at Brar Square.
Numerous eyebrows were raised by the nonappearance of any senior part of the Modi government.
A brigadier posted in the Kashmir Valley told TOI that Col Rai was known for driving his men from the front. "After the aggressors were encompassed by Rai's troops, group of one of them left the house to tell Rai that they would surrender. However that was not to be," he said, about what prompted the colonel's executing. A Jammu and Kashmir police head constable, Sanjeev Singh, excessively lost his life in the firearm fight.
Rai's 11-year-old little girl weeped as she yelled her dad's regiment's old rallying call, then raised her right hand to salute him for the last time as she blast out in tears. Colonel Rai's wife was hopeless, while his six-year-old child couldn't most likely fathom the misfortune.
Pay tribute to Colonel M N Rai, martyred in J&k :
Alka, Rai's eldest little girl whose battle cry prompted the Gorkha officers and fighters rehashing it a few times over, said she was a glad girl. "My dad was a bold father," Alka said.
Day in the wake of accepting courage decoration, Col Munindra Nath Rai killed in J&k gunbattle
Col Rai is made due by his wife Priyanka, and three kids :
Col Rai's burial service fire was lit by his senior sibling, Col D N Rai, who excessively is an officer of the Gurkha Rifles. A second sibling, Y N Rai, is with the CRPF, and was among the individuals who maintained wounds when they battled activists amid the terrorist assault on Raghunath Temple in 2002.
Armed force boss General Dalbir Singh, a kindred Gurkha officer, was among the individuals who paid tributes to Col Rai at Brar Square.
Numerous eyebrows were raised by the nonappearance of any senior part of the Modi government.
A brigadier posted in the Kashmir Valley told TOI that Col Rai was known for driving his men from the front. "After the aggressors were encompassed by Rai's troops, group of one of them left the house to tell Rai that they would surrender. However that was not to be," he said, about what prompted the colonel's executing. A Jammu and Kashmir police head constable, Sanjeev Singh, excessively lost his life in the firearm fight.
