On Valentine Day last year, the Pulwama district in Kashmir had witnessed one among the deadliest terrorist attacks within the last decade, claiming the lives of 40 CRPF soldiers. The Central Reserve police (CRPF) can pay homage to those 40 martyrs on Friday by organizing a low-key “wreath-laying” ceremony at Lethpora Camp to mark their first death anniversary.
In the ceremony which can be held Friday in 185 Battalion of CRPF, which is soon to be converted into Group Centre of CRPF, Special DG, North Zone, CRPF Zulfiqar Hasan is about to pay tributes alongside top security officials from the safety grid. The Battalion is 2 Km from the particular site of the attack.
A martyr’s column dedicated to the memory of these jawans who laid down their lives within the line of duty are going to be inaugurated at this solemn function. “It goes to be a solemn ceremony, a martyr column are going to be inaugurated with the names of the CRPF jawans who died within the Pulwama attack inscribed thereon , a blood donation camp are going to be even be held at Letpora,” Zulfiqar Hasan told IANS.
Sources said: “Family of martyrs haven’t been called because it was deemed that there would be private ceremonies held at their residences.”
Moreover, during a bid to honor those martyrs a memorial are going to be inbuilt Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district whose construction will begin tomorrow. Soil is being collected from the homes of the CRPF martyrs which can be utilized in the development of the memorial.
As per a Times of India report, Umesh Gopinath Jadhav, a Bengaluru-based singer, had traveled to the family home of every of the 40 Pulwama martyrs, met the families and had collected the soil from outside their houses in an earthen pot. Jadhav will meet DG Zulfiqar Hasan at the Lethpora camp and can present the urn, to be laid at the memorial column.
Jadhav has traveled over 61,000 km across India to satisfy the relations of the martyrs. He are going to be the sole guest at the CRPF’s Lethpora camp today.
On Wednesday, CRPF officials visited the residences of Mohan Lal Raturi, one among the 40 personnel killed in last year’s Pulwama attack, in Uttarakhand.
The CRPF has collected soil from both the residences of Raturi during a Kalash (pot) to send it to Pulwama, where the development of the memorial will begin from Valentine Day , 2020, the primary anniversary of the attack.
In the ghastly act, a minimum of 40 CRPF men were killed after a Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist rammed an explosive-laden car into the 55-seater bus they were traveling in at Lethpora, Pulwama in South Kashmir on Valentine Day , 2019.
A terrorist belonging to Pakistani Army backed Islamic terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad, identified as Adil Ahmad Dar, had rammed an SUV laden with over 300 kg of explosives into the CRPF bus carrying about 40 personnel.
The CRPF convoy of 70 vehicles carrying over 2000 personnel was on the thanks to Srinagar from Jammu after the highway opened for a method traffic after several days of closure thanks to heavy rainfall and subsequent landslides.
Jaish-e-Mohammad claimed responsibility for the attack and identified the terrorist (fidayeen) as Adil Ahmad from Kakapora in Pulwama, who had joined the Jaish-e-Mohammed in 2018. They also released a recorded video message of the terrorist .
India had exacted revenge by decimating the Jaish terrorist camps at a hilltop in Balakot, Pakistan, 13 days later during a precision airstrike administered by Indian Air Force.
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