Chief Minister Raman Singh on Thursday paid homage to six martyrs of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) at the Mana-based Chhattisgarh Shasastra Bal Fourth battalion premises here.
The six troopers were killed in a IED landmine blast triggered by Maoists at village Melawada in Dantewada district in insurgency torn Bastar region on Wednesday.
Solemn atmosphere prevailed at the premises where the Chief Minister paid floral tributes on behalf of the entire Chhattisgarh State.
The mortal remains of uniformed personnel had been flown off to their native places. Principal Secretary Home Department BVR Subrahmanyam, Joint Secretary of Union Home Ministry Praveen Vashist, Chhattisgarh Director General of Police A. N. Upadhyaya, Special Director General of Police D. M. Awasthi, CRPF Director General Durga Prasad and Senior Security expert K.Vijaykumar paid homage to the valiant jawans. The atmosphere was surcharged with emotions.
Seven jawans were killed in the massive landmine blast. Another martyr Assistant Sub-Inspector (Radio) D. Vijayraj's body was flown by helicopter from Divisional Headquarter Jagdalpur (Bastar) to Hyderabad in Telengana.
It will be flown to his home state from there. Top officers paid homage to the martyred Assistant Sub-Inspector (Radio) at Jagdalpur . The rest of the six bodies of the jawans had been flown to Raipur and top brass of the State Government paid obeisance to them.
The brave jawans were Pradeep Tirki village Raikera district Gumla (Jharkhand), Roopnarayan Das, village Kranji district West Midnapur (West Bengal), Jawan (Armoured wing) late Devendra Chaurasia, village Jiganibazar, Tehsil-district Deoria (Uttar Pradesh), jawan late Mrutyunjay Mukherjee, village Puratanhat, district Bardhaman (West Bengal) and jawan (transport) Saindane Nana Udaisingh, village Nagalwadi, district Jalgaon (Maharsahtra).