Pulwama attack: Funeral held for Kangra martyr

Tribune News Service
Shimla, February 16

Mortal remains of 30-year-old Tilak Raj, a CRPF trooper who was killed in the Pulwama attack, consigned to flames at his native village in Kangra’s Jawali on Saturday.

Thousands gathered to say their last goodbyes to the martyr as Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur and Union Health Minister JP Nadda paid their respects. People anger was palpable in the anti-Pakistan slogans they shouted.

The trooper left a wife Savitri Devi and two very young sons—aged 3 and a month-old infant. His brother lit the funeral pyre.

Thakur said the nation shared the family’s grief and was proud of the trooper’s sacrifice. He promised a job to the martyr’s wife as well as possible assistance.