New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- An emotional scene was visible on Tuesday at a hospital where stretcher-bound Sandeep Kaur reached out for a final hug to her husband, Navjot Singh, who was taken away for cremation.

With tears rolling down her face and pain wracking her body, Kaur reached out from her stretcher to touch Singh's lifeless face.

The two stretchers were placed side by side -- one bearing Singh's body and the other bearing his seriously injured wife -- amid stunned silence in the hospital room.

The family members had brought Singh's body to her room for a final goodbye before his cremation.

Navjot Singh, 52, a deputy secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs, was killed on Sunday afternoon when a speeding BMW car rear-ended th...