Officials to pay homage at martyrs’ schools

Chandigarh, October 15 

To honour the men in khaki who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty, senior police officials will visit their schools and native places on October 21 to pay homage.

October 21 is observed as Police Commemoration Day.

A recent order issued by the office of Director General of Police Tajender Singh Luthra stated that special teams would visit schools, in which these valiant men studied, to pay homage to them.

The measure is a part of the directives of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a conference of senior police officials in the past, sources said.

“The officers will visit schools of martyrs and address students in the assemblies there to make them aware of how a student like them performed exemplary service to the nation,” Luthra told PTI over the phone.

The teams would be led by DSP-rank officials and carry a picture of the person who made the supreme sacrifice so that it could be prominently displayed at the school, he added.

Teams of police officials will also visit the families of these men on the day.

According to officials, at least six officers of the city police have laid down their lives in the line of duty. They are Inspectors Jagjit Singh and Sucha Singh, Sub-Inspector Amarjit Singh and ASIs Amarjit Singh, Amin Chand and Lalu Ram, officials said.

“This initiative is in the right direction. Families of those who lay down their lives, even as they are proud of the sacrifice, have to undergo a lot of suffering. This recognition may go a long way in supporting them,” said Shanti Devi, wife of ASI Amin Chand, who lost his life in a bomb blast triggered by militants to target the police force in 1991. — PTI