KANGRA JAWAN CELEBRATED SON’S BIRTH RECENTLY
DHARAMSHALA: Tilak Raj (30), one of the CRPF men killed in Thursday’s terror attack, will be remembered at his native village Dhewa in Jawali sub-division of Kangra district for his folk songs and an interest in kabaddi.
Tilak, who joined CRPF in 2007, recently came home to celebrate the birth of his second child and returned to Jammu, only on Monday. Son of a farmer, Tilak is survived by his parents, wife Savitri Devi and two sons — one aged two and another just 22 days.
Tilak wrote and sung many songs in Gaddiyali, the dialect of the Gaddi tribe in the hill state.
Afsar Singh, a panch of Dhela panchayat, says whenever he came home he would organise a kabbadi tournament in the village. “He would also write and record new songs,” he said.