Lt Gen D P Vats (retd), a BJP leader, was also present. Purohit and Anmol Maan were seen consoling the family members of Colonel Singh.
The Army officer, a Sena medal awardee, leaves behind two children, wife Jagmeet Kaur, a government school teacher in Haryana's Panchkula district, mother Manjeet Kaur and brother Sandeep. Colonel Singh did his schooling from Mullanpur before graduating in commerce stream from a college in Chandigarh.
He later cleared the Combined Defence Services examination and joined the Indian Military Academy. Major Ashish Dhonchak, who died fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, were consigned to the flames on Friday in Haryana's Panipat with full military honours.
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