Jawan cremated with state honours

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, September 21

Atma Singh, a head constable in the BSF, posted in Jammu and Kashmir, who was killed in a road accident with another BSF sepoy and a civilian on Wednesday, was cremated at Dhoorkot, his native village in Faridkot, with state honours on Friday.

Two BSF personnel and a civilian driver were killed in the road accident on the Srinagar-Jammu highway in Banihal area of Ramban district.

A truck carrying two BSF men had skidded off the road and plunged into a gorge near Rattanbass, four kilometers from Banihal.

The mortal remains of Atma Singh were sent from Srinagar airport by an Air India flight on September 20 in the afternoon to reach at the Jammu airport. These remains were further moved to Dhoorkot by road in a BSF vehicle, which reached Faridkot on Thursday night.

The last rites were performed with full state honours and many senior police and civil administration officers paid floral tributes to the mortal remains of Atma Singh.

People had started thronging his house soon after the news of his death broke when his body arrived in the wee hours.

Atma Singh is survived by his wife Jasminder Kaur (45), son Husandeep Singh (20) and daughter Palbir Kaur (16). Atma Singh was recruited in the BSF in 1991.