Brigadier LS Lidder's Wife, Daughter Bid A Tearful Goodbye
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The Brigadier, who was a top aide to Gen Rawat, had been approved for promotion to Major General, and was due to take command of a division
Brigadier Lakhwinder Singh Lidder's wife, Geetika Lidder, and daughter, Aashna Lidder, said goodbye to him this morning, in emotional and heart-wrenching scenes from Delhi's Brar Square Crematorium. #WATCH | Delhi: The wife and daughter of Brig LS Lidder pay their last respects to him at Brar Square, Delhi Cantt. He lost his life in #TamilNaduChopperCrash on 8th December. pic.twitter.com/oiHWxelISi
Mournful visuals shared by news agency ANI showed Mrs Lidder in tears kneeling by the head of her husband's coffin, which was draped with the national flag and decked with flowers.
The Brigadier's daughter, Aashna Lidder, was by her mother's side, fighting back tears of her own as she let a handful of rose petals fall through her fingers and on to her father's coffin.