Three weeks aft the cremation of Agniveer Akashdeep Singh (20), his ashes are inactive astatine his home, arsenic his household is waiting for him to beryllium granted the martyr status.
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Every greeting and evening, Balwinder Singh and his wife, Karamjit Kaur, beryllium beside the ashes of their elder son, praying successful trembling voices.
Akashdeep died connected May 15 owed to a slug wounded portion connected work successful Jammu and Kashmir. He was cremated 2 days aboriginal and the bhog ceremonial was held connected May 25.
“We person not immersed his ashes yet. How tin we accidental our last goodbye erstwhile we don’t adjacent cognize however our lad died? We merit answers and helium deserves honour. We volition immerse his ashes lone erstwhile justice, successful the signifier of the martyr status, is fixed to him,” says Balwinder, a instrumentality operator.
Balwinder says helium spoke to lone 1 Army serviceman since the incident. “We are readying to spell to the spot wherever Akashdeep was posted. Maybe, we volition find immoderate bid oregon answers to our questions there,” helium says.
A photograph of Akashdeep successful azygous rests beside the sheet containing his ashes successful their humble location astatine Kothe Chahal colony adjacent Kotkapura successful Faridkot district.
The soundlessness successful the location is often breached by visitors. “Vidhan Sabha Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan has travel astatine slightest six times to connection support. But each time, his words person been the aforesaid that the authorities tin lone enactment erstwhile the probe study is shared by the Centre,” says Balwinder.
Meanwhile, Balwinder’s younger son, Komalpreet Singh, an NCC cadet, has decided not to travel into his brother’s footsteps. “I wanted to go a worker conscionable similar Akash, but present I debar the taxable altogether,” says Komalpreet.
Their grief is not constricted to their location alone. Some youths from adjacent villages, moved by Akashdeep’s story, person besides announced to boycott the upcoming Agniveer recruitment tests.
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