Anger soars as coffins reach home
RESENTMENT Slain jawan’s wife insists on seeing his headless body, asks govt to give befitting reply to Pakistan
Twelveyear-old Sahildeep Singh was a picture of grief and resolve as he stood saluting his father’s bravery with tears rolling down his cheeks.
“I am proud of my father. I will also join the army,” Sahildeep said between sobs as he lit the pyre of his father, Naib Subedar Paramjit Singh, who was killed and beheaded by Pakistani intruders along the Line of Control in the Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch on Monday.
The funeral of the Naib Subedar was attended by at least one member from every household in this village of 45,000.
Grief gave way to anger when Paramjit Singh’s wife, Paramjit Kaur, insisted that she be allowed to have one last look at her husband whose body was brought in a coffin wrapped in the Tricolour.
When she saw the headless body, she demanded that the government give Pakistan a befitting reply.
“I am proud that my husband sacrificed his life for the nation but it is very painful to see the way his body has been mutilated. There is no head,” she said, breaking down.
Sahildeep and his twin sister, Khushdeep Kaur, were in tears as their elder sibling, Simerdeep Kaur, 15, said, “My father has held our head high. He was to come on leave on May 10… I met him six months ago. I didn’t
I do not want to say what we will do. Instead of speaking, we will focus on our action at a time and place of our choosing.
I am proud that my husband sacrificed his life for the nation but it is painful to see the way his body has been mutilated. There is no head.
know it was the last time I would be seeing him.”
Anti-Pakistan slogans rent the air as thousands of villagers attended the cremation that was carried out with full military honours. The body was brought to the village around noon in an Indian army chopper. It was taken to the new house Paramjit was building. The family planned to shift there. Tarn Taran deputy commissioner DPS Kharbanda said that the Punjab government will give ₹13 lakh to the family of the martyr, of which ₹6 lakh was handed over on Tuesday.
Congress MLAs Ramanjit Singh Sikki and Dharambir Agnihotri, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader HS Phoolka and former Akali MLA Ravinder Singh Brahmpura were also present to pay their respects to the slain soldier and console his family members.