Shaheed Capt Anuj Nayyar
Martyr’s father blames
it on politicians
HT Correspondent (New Delhi, July 10)
Proud of being the father
of a martyr, yet unable to control his grief, Capt
Anuj Nayyar's father, Mr S K Nayyar, today hit out
at the politicians and bureaucrats running the
country
“He did not deserve to
die in a ‘war-like’ situation. Our children have
not been brought up to be killed like this. There is
not such thing as ‘death-like’. It is either
death or life. Similarly, there can be no
‘war-like’ situation, it is either war or
peace,” Anuj's aunt said. “Why can't those who
allowed the infiltrators to come so deep inside our
country be punished?”
Today, when the body
arrived in a coffin, the tears in the eyes of Meena
Nayyar overflowed and her sobs rent the air.
Clutching the photograph of Capt Anuj Nayyar to her
chest, she tried hard to console an equally upset
Timmy, Anuj's fiancee. The two had been engaged for
over a year now and were planning to get married in
September.
Another relative of Capt
Nayyar said, “Our grief at the loss would not have
been so much had there been a war. But the fact that
he was killed in our own country by infiltrators who
had entrenched themselves so deep inside the LoC
hurts. Now that he is gone I miss him, miss him a
lot. But I am proud that he did his duty. And did
his duty very well.”
Capt Anuj Nayyar, of 17 JAT,
was killed on Pimple 1 in the South West sector of
Tiger Hills, on July 5. “All the six persons with
him were killed,” said a jawan from the same unit
who had come to Delhi with the bodies. Paying
respects to the 35 martyrs, most of who are from the
JAT regiment, was the Western Army Commander, Lt Gen
HBS Kala, who is also the Colonel of the
Regiment.
Among the dead who were
paid homage today are Capt Anuj Nayyar, Capt Jerry
Premraj, L/Nk Balwan Singh, Nk Ram Sarup, Sep
Satyavir Singh, Sep Sheesh Ram, Sep Varinder Kumar,
Sep Karan Singh, Nk Ganesh Prasad, Sep Pramod Kumar,
Sep Anil Kumar, Sep Dharamveer, Sep Jitendra Singh,
Sep Rajindra Singh and five personnel from the
Grenadiers. This morning, 16 bodies were paid
homage. These include those of Grenadiers Riasat
Ali, Zuber Ahmed, Hussain Ali Khan, Rizawan, Hassan
Mohammad, Mohammad Ishaq Khan, L/Nk Ahmad Ali, Zakir
Hussain, Abid Khan, CQMH Annuruddin, Hav Brij
Bhushan Tiwari and Sep Pramod Kumar and Maj Sarvanan
who was killed on May 29.
Nation's second highest
wartime gallentry award MAHA VIR CHAKRA was awarded
to Captain Anuj Nair on 15th August 1999
Courtesy: The HINDUSTAN
TIMES News Service
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