The body of CISF Assistant Commandant Biswajit Meher, who died in a road accident in ludhiana recently, was cremated at his native Thebera village under lakhanpur block in Jharsuguda district on Tuesday.
Meher’s body was brought by a special aircraft from Ranchi to lakhanpur from where it was sent to his native village in a procession. Thereafter, it was cremated at the graveyard on Mahanadi bed.
Among notables, lift Irrigation Corporation Chairman Anup Kumar Sai, Brajrajnagar MlA Radharani Panda and lakhanpur IIC BB Seth paid flolar tributes to the departed soul. CISF Assistant Commandant from Mumbai Ashok Patra, Rourkela unit ASI SC Swain and CISF officers from the NTPC Darlipali presented guard of honour.
Biswajit had joined the CISF in Mumbai as an Assistant Commandant in 2011. He was sent to ludhiana on January 20 on general election duty where he was killed in a road accident.