For Captain Pawan Kumar, a Jat and a JNU degree holder, all that mattered was love for the country and not calls for azadi (freedom) on the campus or the reservation demand by his community members in Haryana.
"Kisiko reservation chahiye to kisiko azadi bhai. Humein kuchh nahin chahiye bhai. Bas apni razai. (Some want reservation and some independence, I don't want anything, brother, I want only my quilt)," said the 23-year-old captain of the Special Forces, who laid down his life while leading his team against terrorists in Pampore in Jammu and Kashmir in his last Facebook post on Saturday.
Kumar was among the three Indian army commandos, two policemen and a civilian who were killed in a fierce gunfight with a group of terrorists holed up inside a government building on the outskirts of Srinagar, according to PTI.
The multi-storied building of Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) building in Pampore caught fire on Saturday afternoon as the encounter between army and the heavily-armed terrorists, suspected to be 3-4 in number, still continues on day three.
The Army lost Captain Pawan Kumar, Captain Tushar Mahajan and jawan Om Prakash, all of the elite Para commando units, in the gun battle that started Saturday, and is still ongoing.
Here are some glimpses of Indians paying a final goodbye to the brave soldiers:
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