Amid Operation Sindoor, Nimrat Kaur recalls father Major Bhupender Singh’s death in Kashmir in 1994: ''Terrorists kidnapped him, 7 days later...'

Actress Nimrat Kaur, who featured in projects like The Lunchbox, Airlift, Dasvi and recently released Kull, is a daughter of a brave army officer Major Bhupinder Singh who lost his life in a terrorist attack in Kashmir in 1994.

Amid Operation Sindoor, Nimrat’s old interview recalling her father being kidnapped and terminated in 1994 in the Kashmir Valley has resurfaced on the internet.

“He was a young army major, an engineer posted on the border roads of the army in a place called Verinag (the first valley after the Jawahar Tunnel on your way to Srinagar from Jammu). Kashmir was not a family station, so we continued living in Patiala when he went to Kashmir,” Nimrat told ETimes.

“We were on our winter vacation in January 1994 and visiting our father in Kashmir, when the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen kidnapped him from his place of work and, after seven days, terminated him. They had made some ridiculous demands of some terrorists to be released that he obviously did not agree to. He was just 44 when he died. We got the news and flew back with his body to Delhi, and I saw his body for the first time only in Delhi,” she explained.

“But, the army stands by you like a rock. They are your family, and even today, they will come at the drop of a hat if you need something, and they will do anything for you. I also think it’s to do with my father’s goodwill and his relationship with people,” she shared.

Apart from Nimrat, celebs like Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Anushka Sharma, Akshay Kumar, Sushmita Sen, Lara Dutta, Gul Panag, Neha Dhupia, Preity Zinta and Arjun Rampal, also hail from army families.