India, Jan. 30 -- A heavy silence hung over a nondescript lane in Delhi's Rajouri Garden on Thursday. Just a day ago, it lost its affable resident Captain Sumit Kapoor to the air crash in Baramati that claimed the life of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.

Now, it was time to bid the seasoned pilot a final farewell. Amid quiet tears and folded hands, the mortal remains of Kapoor were consigned to flames at the Punjabi Bagh crematorium.

With the body not taken to the Kapoor residence, family and friends gathered at the crematorium ground to pay their last respects.

Several mourners recalled Kapoor, who was in his 50s, as a warm-hearted neighbour and a committed professional whose sudden death has left the locality in shock. ...