SOURCE: HT
Forty-two-year-old Indian Army jawan from Uttarakhand Havaldar Bishan Singh, who was among those injured in the Galwan Valley Clash in Ladakh in June, succumbed to his injuries during treatment and was cremated with full military honours at his native place Haldwani in Nainital district on Sunday. Singh succumbed to his injuries on Friday.
Singh, who hailed from Bangapani area of Pithoragarh, had shifted with his family to Haldwani a few years ago. He is survived by his wife and two children including a son,19 and a daughter, 16. He was to retire on August 31 this year.
Singh’s last remains, draped in tricolour, was brought to his home by the army personnel on Sunday afternoon. His family members paid their last tributes to him after which he was cremated with full military honours at town’s Ranibag crematorium.
Singh was injured in Galwan and undergoing treatment in military hospital in Leh.
“Later he was shifted to the military hospital in Chandigarh on August 6 where he succumbed during treatment on August 14. We were informed about his death by the army authorities late night on that day,” Singh’s daughter Manisha said.
She said that Singh was scheduled to come home early this month but ‘fate had other things for them.’
“I have my birthday on August 18 and my father had promised to come home as he had never visited us on my birthday. But, instead of him, his body reached today,” she said.
