Bidding adieu to a braveheart, India salutes Colonel Santosh Mahadik
The 39-year-old martyr's body was brought to Pogarwadi village in Maharashtra's Satara district this morning where his last rites were performed (Photo: AP)- General Officer Commanding,15 Corps, Lt Gen Satish Dua paying tribute to Colonel Santosh Y Mahadik during wreath laying ceremony at 15 Corps headquarters Badami Bagh (Photo: AP)
- A commanding officer of anti-terror force 41 Rashtriya Rifles, his colleagues remember Mahadik as the brave heart who always led from the front (Photo: AP)
- His mortal remains wrapped in the tricolour were brought in a procession escorted by Army personnel (Photo: AP)
- The body was kept for sometime at his mother's house in the neighbouring Aaray village where Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar paid homage to him (Photo: AP)
- Born in a family of modest means at Pogarwadi village in Satara, Mahadik set the foundation to his journey of becoming an army man when he joined the Sainik school in 6th standard in the year 1987 and later went on to join the Army (Photo: AP)
- Hundreds of people from all walks of life converged at a small village in Satara, as the mortal remains of Colonel Santosh Mahadik, who laid down his life battling militants near LoC in north Kashmir's Kupwara district, were consigned to flames
The 39-year-old martyr's body was brought to Pogarwadi village in Maharashtra's Satara district this morning where his last rites were performed (Photo: AP)
Bidding adieu to a braveheart, India salutes Colonel Santosh Mahadik
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