Sonowal visits martyrs Home

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal today visited the home of martyr Niraj Chetri and paid homage to the departed soul.

Chief Minister also handed over an ex gratia of Rs 20 lakh to the father of the martyred SSB Jawan.

Earlier mortal remains of slain Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)jawan Niraj Chetri, who was martyred in Jharkhand on June 2 during an encounterwith Maoists, was laid to rest with full state honours at his native village inAssam's Biswanath district on June 4.

The body, wrapped in tricolour, reached his native villageprevious night. The people who visited the funeral site to pay their lastrespects to the martyred jawan raised slogans like 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai', 'NirajChetri Amar Rahe', 'Vande Mataram'.

The officials of the district administration, police, SSB had paid their floral tribute to the brave jawan.

The SSB and the police personnel accorded the martyr 21-gunsalutes.

Niraj Chetri was killed and four others sustained injuriesin an encounter with Maoists in the forests of Taldangal in Jharkhand's Dumkadistrict on June 2.

The brave jawan Chetri had joined the SSB in 2014 and he wassupposed to tie the knot in December this year.