The army on Friday paid homage to chief of Defence staff Gen. Bipin Rawat in Sopore town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
The function held at auditorium of degree college Sopore where GOC Kilo Force SS Slaria, Commander 7 sector, CO’s of army, CRPF, SSP Sopore, ADC Sopore, BDC chairperson, President MC Sopore, Baramulla and prominent personalities from civil administration of the town paid homage.
Rawat, India’s first Chief of Defence Staff, who had a vast experience across a wide spectrum of conflict and terrain profiles, was among the 13 people killed on Wednesday when the military helicopter they were travelling in crashed in a hilly area in apparently foggy conditions near Coonoor in Tamil Nadu.