By: ML Verma
Dharamsala: Forty-eight years after an unsung soldier of Indian Army went missing during the Sino-India war, his mortal remains were finally consigned to the flames on Thursday at his village with full military honours, after the body was recovered from a melting glacier in Arunachal Pradesh.
“The remains of sepoy (soldier) Karam Chand of 4 Dogra Regiment were consigned to the flames with full military honours in his hometown Agochar,” an army official told HimVani here. The remains were brought to an Army unit close to the village in Kangra district on Wednesday, where the unit held a function to remember the martyr.
Karam Chand was just 21 when he died after being hit by a mortar shell fired by the Chinese army on October 23, 1962, near Walong in the Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh. He was perhaps buried in his military uniform as the battle went on for days together. Along with Karam Chand, 12 more Indian soldiers belonging to the Dogra Regiment went missing in the battle.
Sometime in the first week of this month, Border Road Task Force (BRTF) personnel engaged in clearing a road blocked by a massive landslide near Walong stumbled upon some remains dating back to the war. After four days of intense digging, Karam Chand’s personal belongings, his identity discs, a silver ring, a dilapidated cover of his pay book and a fountain pen were recovered from close to the site from where the BRTF personnel recovered the remains. “The badge bearing PIS No.3950976 was later confirmed to be that of Sepoy Karam Chand whose name figures in the list of martyrs,” the Army said.
The badge PIS No.3950976 was lucky one who lost his life for this this motherland but his family members and country have wait 48 years to realized his sacrifices.
The badge PIS No.3950976 was lucky one who lost his life for this this motherland but his family members and country have wait 48 years to realized his sacrifices.
A poignant "HAQUEEQAT" love song goes thus…'Main yeh soch kar uske dar se utha tha , kee woh rok legi mana legi mujhko…'may the martyr came back for us to say his final good-bye which alas none of us can stop…Salute,Sir!
A poignant "HAQUEEQAT" love song goes thus…'Main yeh soch kar uske dar se utha tha , kee woh rok legi mana legi mujhko…'may the martyr came back for us to say his final good-bye which alas none of us can stop…Salute,Sir!
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