Martyred SSB jawan laid to rest with state honours in Assam’s Biswanath
Guwahati, June 4 (IBNS): Mortal remains of slain Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) jawan Niraj Chetri, who was martyred in Jharkhand on June 2 during an encounter with Maoists, was laid to rest with full state honours at his native village in Assam’s Biswanath district on Tuesday.
The body, wrapped in tricolour, reached his native village last night.
The people who visited the funeral site to pay their last respects to the martyred jawan raised slogans like ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’, ‘Niraj Chetri Amar Rahe’, ‘Vande Mataram’.
The officials of the district administration, police, SSB had paid their floral tribute to the brave jawan.
The SSB and the police personnel accorded the martyr 21-gun salutes.
Niraj Chetri was killed and four others sustained injuries in an encounter with Maoists in the forests of Taldangal in Jharkhand’s Dumka district on June 2.
The brave jawan Chetri had joined the SSB in 2014 and he was supposed to tie the knot in December this year.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
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