Martyred CRPF jawan cremated with full state honour at native village

Little did they know that the wheel of fate would catapult in a way that they would have to mourn the death of their only hope before his scheduled coming in the home?

Biswabrata Goswami

Statesman News Service

MIDNAPORE, 28 JUNE: The CRPF jawan, who was martyred in a militant attack at Anantnag in Kashmir, was cremated with full state honour at his native house at Singpur in Sabang in West Midnapore today.

The 28-year-old, Shyamal Kumar Dey was martyred while valiantly retaliating a terrorist attack at Bijbehara in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday afternoon.

He was the only child of his parents –Badal Kumar Dey and Shibani. He had joined the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in 2015.

The casket carrying his body wrapped in tricolour was kept in the Midnapore police line last night and it was taken to the premises of the Singpur primary school where hundreds of local residents paid their last respect to him today.

IG, CRPF, Pradip Kumar Singh, SP, West Midnapore, Dinesh Kumar, MP, Deepak Adhikari alias Deb, Rajyasabha MP, Dr Manas Bhunia, MLA Gita Bhunia and other administrative officials paid floral tributes to him.

The slain soldier later received the guard of honour and gun salute by the district police on behalf of the state government.

After this, the coffin was taken to the premise of his native house where family members and others paid their homage to their beloved child. Here, the CRPF jawans honoured him with a gun salute. His last rites were conducted in a selected site inside the premise of the house of the martyred jawan.

On Friday afternoon CRPF jawans of 90 battalion were patrolling near Padsahibagh bridge in Bijbehara area when few terrorists attacked them. During exchange of bullets two CRPF jawans including Dey and a nine- year-old boy of Kulgam suffered bullet injuries. Later the boy and Dey succumbed to their injuries at a hospital.

A poll of gloom descended as soon as the news reached to the family and neighbourers. The news shocked the residents of the entire village.

Badal Dey, father of the martyred jawan was not in position to speak anything about his son and mother, Sibani was seen relentlessly sobbing for the sudden demise of her son.

He was brought up from a marginal farmer family and he had a dream to erect a pucca building for his parents, said Nirmal Kumar Dey, a relative.

The family members were desperately waiting to complete the construction of their two-storied building by the month of July as their lone son was scheduled to return on one-month vacation from his duty.

Little did they know that the wheel of fate would catapult in a way that they would have to mourn the death of their only hope before his scheduled coming in the home?