CDS General Bipin Rawat laid to rest with full military honours
Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat on Friday evening (December 10) was laid to rest with full military honours at Brar Square crematorium in Delhi cantonment. Last rites of General Rawat’s wife Madhulika were also held at the same crematorium.
Daughters of General Rawat – Kritika and Tarini performed the last rites.
General Rawat was also accorded a 17-gun salute at his funeral.
Nation bid adieu to General Rawat with teary eyes.
On Wednesday, the IAF helicopter Mi-17V5 with 14 persons on board, including General Rawat and his wife, took off from Sulur air base and crashed minutes before it was supposed to land at Coonoor. Group Captain Varun Singh, the Directing Staff at the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington, Tamil Nadu, is the lone survivor of the ill-fated chopper.
By EP Web Desk
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