The last rites of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, killed in a plane crash, were held with full state honours on Thursday at Baramati in Pune district.Union ministers Amit Shah, Nitin Gadkari, former Union minister Sharad Pawar and BJP president Nitin Nabin attended the 66-year-old Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief’s funeral at the Vidya Pratishthan ground at Baramati, around 100 km from Pune.Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis and Deputy CM Eknath Shinde were also present, along with Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra, who is a Rajya Sabha member, and sons Parth and Jay. Ajit Pawar’s cousin Supriya Sule, Lok Sabha member from Baramati, and NCP working president and former Union minister Praful Patel were also present.Parth and Jay lit their father’s funeral pyre. On Thursday morning, the mortal remains of Ajit Pawar were taken from the Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Hospital in Baramati, where they were kept overnight, to his village. — with PTIAjit Pawar’s mortal remains brought to Baramati for last ritesJanuary 29, 2026 11:09 amBaramati: Ajit Pawar’s mortal remains, draped in a national flag, were brought from his village Katewadi to Baramati for the last rites. PTICockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder recovered from crash siteJanuary 29, 2026 10:56 amBaramati: Officials probing the plane crash that claimed the life of Ajit Pawar have recovered the voice recorder and flight data recorder from the accident spot. The Ministry of Civil Aviation confirmed that the equipment has been recovered from the site. Earlier on Thursday, officials from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and forensic teams reached the crash site. ANI’Ajit dada amar rahe’: Villagers mourn Pawar at his Katewadi homeJanuary 29, 2026 10:41 amBaramati: Hundreds of mourners thronged the residence of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar at his native village Katewadi near here on Thursday morning to pay their last respects to the leader who died in a plane crash. Grief-stricken people from Katewadi and nearby villages in Pune district, joined by NCP workers, reached outside the residence gates, chanting slogans such as ‘Ajit dada amar rahe” and ‘Ajit dada parat ya’ (Ajit dada, please come back). “A leader like him will not be born again,” several mourners said, lauding his role in the region’s development. PTILast rites of Ajit Pawar’s PSO conducted in native Satara villageJanuary 29, 2026 10:15 amBaramati: The last rites of Vidip Dilip Jadhav, the personal security officer (PSO) of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, were performed in their native village in Satara on Wednesday night. His young son performed the last rites. Jadhav was on board the plane that crash-landed in Baramati killing all five people on board. ANIUP flight attendant among victims in plane crash; village plunges into griefJanuary 29, 2026 9:42 amJaunpur: Pinki Mali, a flight attendant from Bhainsa village in Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh, was among those killed on Wednesday in a plane crash that also claimed the life of NCP leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and three others, officials and family sources said. Pinki had been living with her family in Mumbai and was on board the chartered aircraft that crashed, they added. The news of her death led to grief at her native village, with residents gathering to console her grieving family. According to villagers, Pinki’s father Shivkumar Mali, an NCP leader, had moved to Mumbai several years ago with his family. Pinki completed her education in Thane and was married about a year ago in Gorakhpur. Villagers remembered Pinki as a hardworking, warm, and promising young woman. PTIAccidental death report registered in plane crash that killed Ajit PawarJanuary 29, 2026 9:01 amPune: Police registered an accidental death report (ADR) case in connection with the plane crash that killed Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and four others in Baramati in Pune district on Wednesday, an official said. “We have registered an accidental death report (ADR) with the Baramati taluka police station,” confirmed a senior police officer from the Pune rural police. As per procedure, the ADR will be handed over to the Maharashtra Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which will conduct a probe based on findings of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB)’s inquiry. The AAIB, which functions under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, has already taken over the probe into the crash. PTI