Samba/Jammu, Feb. 12 -- He had returned to his Army unit on January 28 after his engagement and giving final touches to his new house. Just 14 days later, Naik Mukesh Singh Manhas was martyred in an IED blast, leaving his family shattered and pondering a future gone dark.
The 29-year-old from Jammu and Kashmir's Samba, who was supposed to get married in April, was martyred along with Captain Karamjit Singh Bakshi from Jharkhand's Ranchi in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast carried out by terrorists near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu's Akhnoor sector on Tuesday
In his native Bri Kamila village in the border district of Samba, villagers remembered Manhas as an enthusiastic cricketer, an extrovert and someone who was always rea...