MEWAT, Haryana: Mortal remains of Lt Kiran Shekhawat, the woman officer who died in the line of duty,
was on Sunday consigned to flames with full military honours in Kurthala village here.
was on Sunday consigned to flames with full military honours in Kurthala village here.
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Commoners and politicians, cutting across party lines, paid their homage to the departed soul. Accompanied by the Navy officials, the body of the officer was brought here wrapped in a tricolour.
Besides the family members of the officer, local villagers, officials of the civil and police administration, former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, BJP's Rao Narbir Singh and Indian National Lok Dal party's area MLA Zakir Hussain, were among others to offered homage to the deceased officer.
Three days ago, Lt Shekhawat's body was recovered from the fuselage of the ill-fated Dornier Aircraft of the Navy which had crashed during a training sortie off the Goa coast.
A native of a village in Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu district, she was recently married to Vivek Singh Chokker in Kurthala, situated close to Gurgaon. Lt Kiran was in combat role as an observer, flying tactical sorties over the ocean and tracking and engaging hostile ships violating the country's maritime boundaries. Her death comes at a time when there is a growing demand among women to be given combat roles in the armed forces. TOI had also run a campaign in the run-up to the International Women's Day on March 8 supporting the demand.
(PTI photo)
A native of Sefarguwar village of Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, Kiran was married to Vivek Singh Chokker in Kurthala near Gurgaon, where her mother-in-law Sunita Chokker is sarpanch and the family have some agricultural land.
Shekhawat had a passion for flying. When she wasn't on duty, she loved dancing and listening to the tracks of Enqrique Iglesias and Shania Twain. A big fan of author Nicholas Sparks, she made sure she either read all his books or watched the movies based on them, a naval officer said.
Besides the family members of the officer, local villagers, officials of the civil and police administration, former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, BJP's Rao Narbir Singh and Indian National Lok Dal party's area MLA Zakir Hussain, were among others to offered homage to the deceased officer.
Three days ago, Lt Shekhawat's body was recovered from the fuselage of the ill-fated Dornier Aircraft of the Navy which had crashed during a training sortie off the Goa coast.
A native of a village in Rajasthan's Jhunjhunu district, she was recently married to Vivek Singh Chokker in Kurthala, situated close to Gurgaon. Lt Kiran was in combat role as an observer, flying tactical sorties over the ocean and tracking and engaging hostile ships violating the country's maritime boundaries. Her death comes at a time when there is a growing demand among women to be given combat roles in the armed forces. TOI had also run a campaign in the run-up to the International Women's Day on March 8 supporting the demand.
(PTI photo)
A native of Sefarguwar village of Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, Kiran was married to Vivek Singh Chokker in Kurthala near Gurgaon, where her mother-in-law Sunita Chokker is sarpanch and the family have some agricultural land.
Shekhawat had a passion for flying. When she wasn't on duty, she loved dancing and listening to the tracks of Enqrique Iglesias and Shania Twain. A big fan of author Nicholas Sparks, she made sure she either read all his books or watched the movies based on them, a naval officer said.
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"She was going to be transferred to Kochi and I was going be there two months later. We had a lot of plans," said Lt Choker, just hours before performing the last rites of his wife, who was commissioned in the Navy in 2010.
