45 yrs after death, last rites with full honours for NCO

Over 45 years after he lost his life in an IAF transport aircraft crash, the mortal remains of Non-Commissioned Officer Jagmail Singh were today cremated with full military honours at his native Meerpur village in Rewari district of Haryana.
The NCO's body, which was recovered on August 22 by an expedition of the Dogra Scouts of Western Command, was today brought to his village.
His is the fifth body to be recovered of the 102 personnel on board the IAF AN-12 transport aircraft which undertook a flight to Leh from here in February, 1968.
The mortal remains of the NCO, who belonged to the Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, was flown in to the Western Command headquarters at Chandimandir on an IAF chopper yesterday.

He had perished on the snowy heights of Dakka Glacier in the Chander Bhaga ranges of Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh. He was aged 28 years at the time.
Despite the inclement weather in the higher reaches of the mountain ranges, Army ensured that the mortal remains reached Manali by road from where it was transported by an IAF helicopter, a defence release said here today.