Army chief meets with Lance Naik Hemraj's family

New Delhi: Army Chief General Bikram Singh today visited the residence and met with the family of Lance Naik Hemraj who was beheaded by Pakistan Army last week. The Army Chief visited Khairair in Mathura to meet the family of Lance Naik Hemraj. Television visuals showed the Army chief heading to meet with the slain soldier’s wife, mother and other family members. He also paid tribute to the slain soldier. Hemraj’s wife and mother had gone on a fast demanding that the Army Chief must visit their house and assure them that his severed head will be brought back. They subsequently called off the hunger strike. Gen Singh had said he would visit the home of Hemraj, whose family had gone on a six-day fast demanding that his head be brought back from Pakistan. [caption id=“attachment_589572” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] General Bikram Singh. AFP.[/caption] “I will go there after the Army Day is over (today). There is no problem in it,” the Army Chief had said addressing the annual Army Day press conference. Hemraj and Sudhakar Singh were killed by Pakistani troops n 8 January in Poonch sector in Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan Army regulars took away the head of Hemraj as trophy and also mutilated the body of the other soldier. Gen Singh had also said the Pakistan Army should be pressurised to return the Hemraj’s head. “I think we should pressurise them nationally and internationally as part of our national element so that they are made accountable and they are made to return the head of our soldier which they have taken away,” Singh had said. “It will be taken up at the government level and you will have to appreciate that this has to to be done through diplomatic channels,” he had said. PTI