NSG Lt Col buried with full military honours

Tribune News Service

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Bengaluru, january 5

The body of Lt Col EK Niranjan, killed while defusing a bomb at the Pathankot IAF base, was today laid to rest at his ancestral village Elambulassery in Palakkad district of Kerala.

The body of the 34-year-old was buried on the premises of his paternal home amid chanting of ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’ by his close relatives and others present.

Niranjan was accorded full military honours, including a 21-gun salute.

“The Last Post played on the bugle brought a lump in the throat of many of those attending the funeral,” Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala said over phone. Earlier in the day, the body was kept at the local school for the people to pay homage.

The Kerala government has also renamed the ITI at Lt Col Niranjan's village after the martyr.

Man held for FB post

Thiruvananthapuram: A 24-year-old man was on Monday arrested in Malappuram district (Kerala) for allegedly making derogatory  remarks on Facebook against Lt Col EK Niranjan and his family. Anwar Sadhik was booked under IPC 124 (A) (sedition). A casual labourer at a local shop, he posed as a journalist with a regional daily. pti