The body of Swargiary reached Guwahati airport in the morning from Jorhat airport, where a military flight carrying the mortal remains of four Assam Rifles personnel and family members of one of them killed in the ambush on Saturday had remained overnight. The two-and-a-half-year-old son of the couple lay flowers at his father's coffin, oblivious of the grief and loss engulfing the family.
W ife salutes Rifleman Swargiary, 2.5-yr-old son lays flowers on coffinĪ tearful farewell was accorded to Suman Swargiary, the Assam Rifles personnel killed in Manipur ambush, at his residence in Assam's Baksa district on Monday, with his inconsolable wife saluting the mortal remains for the final time amidst heart-wrenching cries. State Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Rajendra Yadav, Dausa MP Jaskaur Meena, MLAs Murari Lal Meena and G R Khatana, and other leaders and senior district administration and police officials were present at the funeral. The funeral took place near Meena's home, local Baswa police station SHO Dara Singh said. The mortal remains of Assam Rifles jawan R P Meena, who was killed in an ambush by insurgents in Manipur, were consigned to flames on Monday at his ancestral village in Rajasthan's Dausa district.Īround 5,000 people had gathered to bid adieu to the slain soldier whose body arrived in Jaipur by air and was taken to Dilawarpur village in Dausa in a military truck.Ī large number of people on motorcycles and other vehicles escorted the military truck. J awan R P Meena cremated in ancestral village in Rajasthan He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Kumaon Regiment in Ranikhet in 2001. IMAGE: People throng to pay tributes to the mortal remains of Colonel Tripathi, his wife and son.
The colonel's younger brother, Lieutenant Colonel Anay Tripathi, who is posted in Shillong, lit the funeral pyre.Ĭhhattisgarh Higher Education Minister Umesh Patel, Raigarh Bharatiya Janata Party MP Gomti Sai, MLS and senior officials also paid floral tributes to the martyred colonel, his wife and son.Ī spontaneous bandh was observed in Raigarh town.Ī large number of people turned up at Colonel Tripathi's house to pay tributes to him.Ĭolonel R S Thakur of the Assam Rifles, four other officers and 45 personnel, who reached Raigarh on Sunday evening, visited Colonel Tripathi's house to express condolences to the bereaved family members.Ĭol Tripathi's father Subhash Tripathi is a senior journalist and editor of a local Hindi daily.Ĭolonel Tripathi was inspired by his freedom fighter grandfather Kishori Mohan Tripathi, who was also a member of the Constituent Assembly, a family member had said. IMAGE: Colonel Tripathi's father, along with Chhattisgarh Minister Umesh Nandkumar Patel, salutes his son. The atmosphere turned more sombre when the colonel's grieving mother, Asha Tripathi, 70, saluted the mortal remains of her son and chanted 'Jai Hind' after all his family members laid floral wreaths at coffins in the crematorium in Raigarh.Ĭolonel Tripathi, the Commanding Officer of Khuga Battalion of the Assam Rifles, his wife Anuja, 36, son Abeer, 5, along four personnel of the paramilitary force were killed in an ambush by terrorists in the north-eastern state on Saturday.Įarlier in the day, a special plane of the Indian Air Force carrying mortal remains of the martyred colonel, his wife and son, landed at an airstrip in Raigarh at 12:42 pm.įrom the airstrip, the bodies, kept in coffins, were taken in an open flower-decked truck to Colonel Tripathi's home with a large number of people standing on both sides of the road chanting 'Colonel Viplav amar rahe'. IMAGE: Mother of martyred Colonel Viplav Tripathi paying tributes to the mortal remains of him, his wife and son, who were killed in a terrorist attack in Manipur, at Ramlila Maidan, in Raigarh on Monday.
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