Click to play videoNew Delhi: Delhi Police Special Cell officer Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma has been laid to rest at Delhi's Nigambodh Ghat with State Honours on Saturday.
Family, friends, colleagues and even total strangers gathered in large numbers to bid a tearful adieu to the slain officer, who died battling terrorists during an encounter on Friday.
Hundreds of ordinary citizens showed up first at his home in the Delhi suburb of Dwarka - and then at the cremation ground - to share the grief of Inspector Sharma's family.
As the body of the 43-year-old officer was brought out of his residence in Delhi's Dwarka area in a flower-decked vehicle for his last journey, 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 on Saturday morning.
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 three bullet injuries on his abdomen, thighs and right arm during the encounter with a group of Indian Mujahideen terrorists in Delhi's Jamia Nagar area on Friday 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 late on Friday evening.
The 1965-born 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.
(With inputs from PTI)
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