PM pays homage to INA hero Col Dhillon

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New Delhi, Mar 30 (UNI) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today led the nation in paying homage to freedom fighter and Indian National Army officer Col G S Dhillon.

Dr Singh, along with a host of dignitaries including Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and Congress MP Jyotiraditya Scindiya, paid floral tributes to Col Dhillon, whose mortal remains were kept at Deewan-E-Aam in Red Fort here.

Ninety-three-year-old Col G S Dhillon, a founder member and pne of the last surviving soldier of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose's of 'Azad Hind Fauj', died in Gwalior on February six of a cardiac arrest after prolonged illness.

Yesterday, Delhi Pradesh Congress President R B Sharma received Col Dhillon's 'asthi kalash' from Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee members at the city's border.

The mortal remains, brought to the historic Red Fort with military honours, would be kept till evening today to enable the public to pay homage, before being taken to Kiratpur in Punjab.

Considered a close associate of Netaji, Col Dhillon was one of three officers put on trial by the British at Delhi's Red Fort in 1945. However, all three were acquitted.

A recipient of Padma Bhushan in 1998, he had settled down at Hatod village in Madhya Pardesh's Shivpuri district and engaged himself in agricultural activities.

Col Dhillon was born at Algo village in Amritsar district of Punjab on March 18, 1914.

He is survived by a son and a daughter.

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