Imminent personalities including politicians and officials paid tributes to martyr Surjit Barla at Birsa Munda International Airport in Ranchi on Tuesday. Those who paid tribute to Barla included Urban Development Minister CP Singh, Ranchi DC Manoj Kumar, City SP Kaushal Kishore and several others.
Body of martyr Surjit Barla was brought to Birsa Munda Airport in Ranchi on Tuesday who was killed in a militants attack in Chandel district of Manipur near Indo-Myanmar border on May 22, 2016.
Principal Secretary SK Satpathy also paid tribute to the martyr on behalf of Governor Draupadi Murmu at the Airport. Governor in her message stated that the whole nation was proud of Barla. She also added that the soldiers of our Country are fully devoted for external and internal security of the nation and have also sacrificed their livers for the unity and integrity of the nation.
“We are all safe because of such real heroes. We are all grateful to such people who are playing with their lives for security of the nation,” stated the Governor.
Barla belonged to Gumla district of Jharkhand who was ambushed in Manipur along with six others including a JCO. Those who got killed in the incident also included names of JCO Subedaar BK Sharma, Riflemen Mahesh Gurung, AK Pandey, Pawan Kumar and Bhupinder Singh.
The dead were part of a 29-member team who were returning to their Joupi Battalion in the district after inspecting a landslide.
Soldiers retaliated and an encounter ensued but the attackers escaped, taking advantage of the thick forests nearby, they said. They also managed to take away six weapons.
last June, NSCN (K) rebels in Chandel had killed 18 soldiers, leading to a surgical strike by the army in Myanmar which the government claimed had led to several militants being killed. The area however, has been cordoned off initiating a search operation in the area,” an official said.