A 13-year-old girl lit the funeral pyre of her martyred father: The wife, with her uniform pinned to her chest, was inconsolable; the entire village gathered for the final farewell of the soldier from Chittorgarh.

Jitendra Singh Chauhan (41), an army jawan, passed away due to a cardiac arrest while on duty in Assam, 25 days before his promotion. On Friday morning, the jawan's body was brought to Surat Singh Ji Ka Khera in his ancestral village of Gangrar area in Chittorgarh, where he was cremated with military honors. The younger brother, Lalit Singh, and the jawan's 13-year-old elder daughter, Kirti Raj, lit the funeral pyre for their martyred father. During the final viewing, his wife...