New Delhi, 18 September(Wishav Warta): With a 17-gun salute and a ‘missing man’ fly past, Marshal of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and war hero Arjan Singh+ was on Monday laid to rest with the highest military and state honours. Singh’s mortal remains were earlier borne on a gun carriage and taken to Delhi’s Brar Square for the ceremonial honours and the last rites. The cortege was wrapped in the tricolour and decorated with flowers. The procession on the 8-km journey from his Kautilya Marg residence to Brar Square in the Delhi Cantonment area included an Air Force band. As tribute to Singh, the national flag is being flown at half-mast on all of Delhi’s government buildings on Monday.
Singh, India’s oldest, five-star ranked air force officer died on Saturday after suffering a heart attack. He was 98. He was the only officer of the IAF to be given a distinction equal to that of a Field Marshal.
