India, April 25 -- The wife of Chhattisgarh businessman Dinesh Miraniya on Friday urged the Union government to confer the title of 'martyr' on her husband.

Miraniya was among the 26 people killed by terrorists on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam. According to his wife, Neha Miraniya, they weren't supposed to be there when the terrorists opened fire but had stayed back because of their daughter.

The family had gone to Kashmir to celebrate the couple's wedding anniversary.

"I ruined my world by going there. I had gone to visit Vaishno Devi because my husband had wished to go for the past 10-12 years... The children wanted to see Kashmir, so we had just planned the trip like that. On 22nd, we went to Pahalgam. We were planning to ...