Jhalawar army man killed in Assam mishap, cremated
Kota: Nayak Pawan Prajapati (28), who was killed in a mishap in Assam late Thursday night was cremated with state honours at his native village Kherkheda in Jhalawar's Asnawar subdivision Sunday noon.
Jhalawar-Baran MP Dushyant Singh, Khanpur MLA Suresh Gurjar, Manohar Thana MLA Govind Ranipuria, Jhalawar SDM Abhishek Charan, other district officials, and many locals were present at the funeral.
The procession marched with Pawan's body draped in the tricolour for about 8 kilometres from Asnawar to Kherkheda village amid chanting of slogans and a shower of flower petals.
Pawan's 5-year-old son, in the arms of his grandfather, lit the pyre, leaving the bystanders with wet eyes.
Pawan Prajapati, a Nayak in the Indian Army and posted in Assam, was disembarking from a train at a railway station in Assam late Thursday night when he fell head first and sustained critical injuries, SDM Jhalawar Abhishek Charan said. He was rushed to the hospital, where doctors declared him brought dead.
The body was flown from Assam to Jaipur Saturday and reached Jhalawar by road Sunday morning. Pawan is survived by two sons, aged 5 years and six months, his wife Pooja, his father Premchand, a farmer, and his mother. Pawan served in the Indian Army for nine years and returned to duty in Assam on June 15 after a vacation with his family.
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