[Reader-list] Tearful adieu to brave Delhi Police officer

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

 Tearful adieu to brave Delhi Police officer

    New Delhi, Sep 20 (PTI) Family and friends today bid a tearful adieu to
slain Delhi Police Special Cell officer M C Sharma, who died battling
terrorists during an encounter.
As the body of the 41-year-old was brought to his residence in South West
Delhi's Dwarka area in a flower-decked vehicle, family members, neighbours
and well wishers started chanting slogans of "Bharat Mata Ki Jai (Long live
Mother India)" and "M C Sharma Amar Rahe (Long live M C Sharma).

A Delhi Police contingent paid a gun salute to the departed officer, a
winner of seven gallantry medals.

Sharma is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter. His son, who had been
admitted to a hospital in Kirti Nagar with Dengue, was also brought home to
bid farewell to his father.

The body of the slain inspector was brought from AIIMS, where a postmortem
had been conducted, to Sharma's residence at Om Satyam Apartments, Sector 4
in Dwarka.

A large number of inconsolable relatives, neighbours and well wishers
trailed the vehicle as the body was taken to the Nigamboth Ghat for
cremation.

Sharma suffered several bullet injuries during the encounter with militants
in the capital's Jamia Nagar area yesterday in which he led the Delhi police
team. Two terrorists were killed and one arrested.

He later succumbed to his injuries at the Holy Family hospital.

The officer who joined the Delhi Police as a Sub-inspector in 1989 was
instrumental in the killing of 35 terrorists and the arrest of another 80
militants, police sources claimed, adding he had killed 40 inter-state
gangsters and arrested another 129. PTI