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12-year-old daughter performs last rites of CDS’s staff officer Lt Col Harjinder Singh

New Delhi:The last rites of Lt Colonel Harjinder Singh, who died in a chopper crash with CDS General Bipin Rawat last week, was performed on Sunday at the Brar Square crematorium in Delhi Cantonment on Sunday.

Twelve-year-old Preet Kaur on Sunday performed the last rites of her father, who was killed along with CDS and 11 others in a helicopter crash near Coonoor on December 8, at Brar Square in Delhi Cantt in a sombre ceremony attended by defence minister Rajnath Singh, the three service chiefs and several military officials.

The 43-year-old officer, called Harry by his friends, was commissioned in the army in September 2001, and had served along India’s borders with China and Pakistan as well as the country’s North-east in his 20-year army career.