New Delhi: Defence Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman and Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat today paid homage to
Captain Kapil Kundu, who was killed in heavy Pakistani
shelling along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
The mortal remains of the officer, who died in the line
of duty yesterday, barely six days before his 23rd birthday,
was flown to Delhi in a Dornier aircraft.
Sitharaman paid respects by laying a wreath on the
tricolour-wrapped coffin, which was laid at the Palam Air
Force Base after the aircraft reached around 6:20 PM.
Earlier, Minister of State for Defence Subhash Bhamre and
Rawat also paid tributes to the soldier of the 15 Jammu and
Kashmir Light Infantry (JAKLI), by laying wreaths.
The defence minister later met the sister and other
family members of Kundu, who had arrived in Delhi, to take the
body of the officer to his hometown in Haryana.
His body was later carried in an ambulance, on way to his
Ransika village in Pataudi in Gurgaon district.
Besides Kundu, Havildar Roshan Lal, 42, a resident of
Samba district, Jammu and Kashmir, Riflemen Ramavatar, 27, of
Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, and Subham Singh, 23, of Jammu and
Kashmir's Kathua district were also killed in the shelling.
"The body of Ramavatar was sent to Gwalior," a defence
official said.
PTI
