With the bugler playing the ‘last post’, Home Minister Rajnath Singh turned a pallbearer on Friday as the bodies of 44 paramilitary personnel killed in an audacious terror strike in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district were sent on their last journey home.
Singh, accompanied by a high-level team comprising officials from the CRPF, NIA and Home Ministry, arrived here on Friday afternoon and drove straight to the adjacent CRPF campus where a wreath laying ceremony was held for the slain jawans.
As the bugler played the ‘last post’ and guard called for ‘shok salami shastra’ (reversing of arms in honour of fallen soldiers), a two-minute silence was observed after which the Union Home Minister gave a shoulder to the coffin of a jawan which was being taken to his native place in a special aircraft. The Home Minister, Governor Satya Pal Malik, Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba, CRPF Director General RR Bhatnagar, Jammu & Kashmir DGP Dilbagh Singh besides others attended the wreath laying ceremony.
