Dharamsala: Forty-eight years after an unsung soldier of Indian Army went missing during the Sino-India war, his mortal remains were finally consigned to the flames on Thursday at his village with full military honours, after the body was recovered from a melting glacier in Arunachal Pradesh.
“The remains of sepoy (soldier) Karam Chand of 4 Dogra Regiment were consigned to the flames with full military honours in his hometown Agochar,” an army official told HimVani here. The remains were brought to an Army unit close to the village in Kangra district on Wednesday, where the unit held a function to remember the martyr.
Karam Chand was just 21 when he died after being hit by a mortar shell fired by the Chinese army on October 23, 1962, near Walong in the Anjaw district of Arunachal Pradesh. He was perhaps buried in his military uniform as the battle went on for days together. Along with Karam Chand, 12 more Indian soldiers belonging to the Dogra Regiment went missing in the battle.Read Full Story
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