Una soldier’s body laid to rest at ancestral village

Una, July 25

The mortal remains of Naik Dilwar Khan, a Gunner in the Indian Army, were laid to rest with full military honours at his ancestral village of Gharvasada in Bangana subdivision of Una district.

The 28-year-old soldier had sustained gunshot wounds during a cordon and search operation conducted against terrorists in the Watlab area of Kupwara, Kashmir, at 5.45 am on Wednesday.

Naik Dilwar had joined the Indian Army at the age of 18 in 2014 and was currently a part of the 28 Rashtriya Rifles engaged in ‘Operation Kovut’ against infiltrators.

The soldier’s body reached Gharvasada around 2 pm today. The soldier’s wife, mother and father were inconsolable as they reached there to get a glimpse of their beloved one, who was draped in the Tricolour. Villagers raised the slogans of ‘Dilwar Khan amar rahe’ and ‘Pakistan murdabad’ while Army officials led the body to the village’s burial ground.

Army officers, accompanied by ADC Mahender Pal Gurjar, ASP Sanjeev Bhatia, Bangana SDM Sonu Goyal and Kutlehar MLA Vivek Sharma laid wreaths on the body as a mark of respect to the soldier for his supreme sacrifice to the nation.

A posse of Army Jawans blew the ‘last bugle’ amid shots fired in the air in respect of the fallen soldier. After the ‘Namaz-e-Janaza’, the body was laid to rest in the burial ground. The soldier has left behind his three-year old-son and two siblings.