Abohar residents pay tribute to BSF martyr

Our Correspondent

Abohar, March 14

Border Security Force (BSF) Assistant Commandant Ramesh Chander Shah of the 181 Battalion today led the people in paying tributes to Vijay Kumar Mahar on his 10th Balidan Diwas. A BSF contingent offered a ceremonial salute to the martyr.

Vijay Kumar Mahar sacrificed his life at the age of 24 in an ambush by a faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland in Assam’s Kokrajhar district in 2011.

At the function organised at the memorial in Dharampura village near here, the martyr’s statue was garlanded by the dignitaries.

The martyr’s family said the memorial had been developed by villagers with the help of the Border Security Force in the native village.

The Border Security Force had also named a lane in its sector headquarters in Abohar after Mahar. Former MLA Gurtej Singh Ghuriana had arranged Rs 5 lakh to develop a welcome gate dedicated to the martyr.