The body of army personnel Chitra Saikia, who laid down his life battling militants at Handwara in Kupwara district of north Kashmir on September 11, was brought to his home in Assam today.
Naik Saikia's body was received at the Guwahati Airport by the Army and sent to his village Jagi Bhakatgaon in Morigaon district, a defence official said.
Locals took his body in a procession to his native place before cremation with full military honour.
Incidentally neither the local legislator nor any minister was present.
Saikia (24) is survived by his wife and a child, his family said.
Saikia, of Army's 22nd Rashtriya Rifles unit, was among two soldiers killed in an encounter with unidentified terrorists in Kashmir valley.
The encounter had broken out in Laribal village of Zachaldara in Handwara after security forces launched an operation there.
