Army Chief to meet martyr's kin today

January 16, 2013 10:44

Chief of Army Staff, General Bikram Singh, will meet the family members of Lance Naik Hemraj here on Wednesday amid demands that the severed head of the martyred soldier be brought back.

General Singh had earlier on Monday said he would visit Hemraj's home. "I will go. They are my people. Tomorrow is Army Day, I will send my senior officer there. I will definitely go. Let this event, the Army Day, be over, I will definitely go and meet the family. If that is the demand, I shall be there," General Singh told the media in New Delhi.

General Singh, who conveyed his condolences to the families of the two jawans killed brutally, had also said that the Pakistani Army should be pressurised to return Hemraj''s head.

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