Chhattisgarh Water Resource and Agriculture Minster Ravindra Choubey on Monday paid homage to the mortal remains of CRPF Deputy Commandant Vikas Kumar at the Mana Battalion in Raipur.
Vikas Kumar died after being injured while defusing an IED in Sukma district on Sunday, a press release said.
After the incident, he was flown to Raipur and admitted in a city hospital where he breathed his last on Monday.
Vikas Kumar, of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, was posted at 208 CoBRA Battalion in Sukma.
“The sacrifice of Vikas Kumar will be always remembered. He displayed extreme courage and attained martyrdom,” Choubey was quoted as saying in the press release.
Along with Choubey, Parliamentary Secretary Vikas Upadhyay, Director General of Police D.M. Awasthi, Special DG (Naxalite Ops) Ashok Juneja and Special DG CRPF Kuldeep Kumar also paid homage to the martyr.