Brigadier LS Lidder is survived by his spouse, Geetika Lidder, and daughter, Aashna Lidder
New Delhi:
Brigadier Lakhwinder Singh Lidder’s spouse, Geetika Lidder, and daughter, Aashna Lidder, mentioned goodbye to him this morning, in emotional and heart-wrenching scenes from Delhi’s Brar Sq. Crematorium.
Mournful visuals shared by information company ANI confirmed Mrs Lidder in tears kneeling by the top of her husband’s coffin, which was draped with the nationwide flag and decked with flowers.
The Brigadier’s daughter, Aashna Lidder, was by her mom’s facet, preventing again tears of her personal as she let a handful of rose petals fall by way of her fingers and on to her father’s coffin.
#WATCH | Delhi: The spouse and daughter of Brig LS Lidder pay their final respects to him at Brar Sq., Delhi Cantt. He misplaced his life in #TamilNaduChopperCrash on eighth December. pic.twitter.com/oiHWxelISi
— ANI (@ANI) December 10, 2021
Earlier Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, NSA Ajit Doval and Haryana Chief Minister ML Khattar had been amongst these to pay their respects. An extended line of navy officers, together with the Chiefs of Workers of the Military, Navy and Air Pressure, additionally paid tribute, marching in stoic sequence to put a wreath at his toes.
Brigadier Lidder, 52, was one of many 13 who died in Wednesday’s horrific chopper crash in Tamil Nadu’s Nilgiri Hills. The crash additionally claimed the lives of Chief of Defence Workers Common Bipin Rawat, his spouse, Madhulika Rawat, and 10 different Air Pressure personnel.
Delhi: Brig LS Lidder laid to ultimate relaxation with full navy honours. The officer misplaced his life in #TamilNaduChopperCrash on eighth December. pic.twitter.com/u0ybylFOTC
— ANI (@ANI) December 10, 2021
The Brigadier, who was a high aide to Gen Rawat, had been accepted for promotion to Main Common, and was as a consequence of take command of a division, when he and the others boarded the ill-fated Mi17-V5.
Commissioned in to the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles (JAK RIF) in December 1990, Brigadier Lidder served as Gen Rawat’s DA, or Defence Assistant, since January.
Amongst quite a few different highlights in his distinguished profession, he additionally commanded a brigade within the northern borders, was a DA in Kazakhstan and led his battalion within the Congo as a part of the United Nations’ Peacekeeping Pressure, and was a Director on the Navy Operations Directorate.
At 4 pm, additionally at Brar Sq. Crematorium, Gen Bipin Rawat will probably be laid to relaxation. At current the our bodies of the Common and spouse are in state at their Delhi house, for the general public to pay ultimate respects.
Solely different physique has been recognized up to now – Lance Naik Vivek Kumar. The remaining are on the mortuary on the Military Base Hospital and will probably be launched for ultimate rites as identification is accomplished.
There is just one survivor from the chopper crash – Group Captain Varun Singh – is being handled for extreme burn accidents on the Air Pressure’s Command Hospital in Bengaluru.
The federal government has ordered a tri-services inquiry into the crash, investigation of which is able to start with the ‘black field’, or flight information recorders, which was recovered yesterday.
With enter from ANI