Colonel M
N Rai, killed in a gun battle with militants in south Kashmir’s Pulwama
district, was on Thursday cremated with full military honours. Army
chief Gen Dalbir Singh placed a wreath as hundreds gathered to pay their last
respects to the officer at the Delhi Cantonment.
The
39-year-old brave officer was also given a gun salute. His pyre was lighted by
the elder brother Col D N Rai, who is also from the Gorkha Rifles.
Colonel M
N Rai lost his life fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Tral on January
27, just a day after being awarded Yudh Seva Medal.
The daughter, wife
and father of Col MN Rai were present for the last rites inhis cremation.
Army chief said: “He was a very brave
officer and he had been awarded Yudh Seva Medal on January 26. And it is an
example of leadership that the moment he got information about two terrorists
in that area, he immediately went in.”
Rai, the
highest-ranking military officer to be killed in the region in nearly a year,
was killed along with one policeman Head Constable Sanjeev Singh of the
Jammu and Kashmir Police Special Operations Group in a gun battle with
Hiz-bul-Mujahideen terrorists. Two terrorists were killed in the encounter.
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