Nitish Kumar pays tribute to martyred BSF jawan Muhammad Imtiaz

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar pays tribute to Border Security Force (BSF) Sub-Inspector Mohammed Imteyaz, who mislaid his beingness successful the enactment of work owed to cross-border shelling from Pakistan successful Jammu and Kashmir’s RS Pura assemblage connected May 10, successful Chhapra connected Tuesday. State Deputy CM Samrat Chaudhary besides present. | Photo Credit: ANI

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar connected Tuesday (May 13, 2025) paid homage to BSF Sub-Inspector Mohammad Imtiaz, who was martyred during Operation Sindoor, by visiting his autochthonal colony Narayanpur successful Chhapra, Saran district. The Chief Minister handed implicit a cheque of ₹50 lakh to the martyr’s household arsenic portion of the State government’s compensation package.

Mr. Kumar besides met Imtiaz’s sons, Imran Raza and Imdad Raza, and different grieving household members, offering his condolences and support. He announced that 1 of the martyr’s sons would beryllium fixed a authorities occupation based connected eligibility, and unveiled a bid of improvement projects successful honour of the slain jawan.

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Among the announcements were the naming of a two-kilometre agrarian roadworthy - from Chintamanganj span to Rahampur marketplace - aft Sub-Inspector Imtiaz, the operation of a Shaheed Dwar (Martyrs’ Gateway) astatine the entranceway of the colony successful Jalal-Basant Panchayat, and a caller wellness sub-centre successful Narayanpur. A memorial successful the sanction of the martyr volition besides beryllium built, the Chief Minister said.

Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, Water Resources and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, and Minority Welfare Minister Jama Khan accompanied Mr. Kumar during the visit.

Leader of the Opposition and erstwhile Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav besides visited the household today. He offered floral tributes and aboriginal posted a connection connected societal media level X, stating, “All countrymen instrumentality pridefulness successful Imtiaz Sahab’s martyrdom. Such valiant soldiers volition proceed to animate the younker for nationalist work forever.”

Meanwhile, a 2nd jawan from Bihar, Rambabu Singh of Siwan district, who was injured successful the aforesaid operation, succumbed to his injuries connected Monday. The soldier, who was precocious married, was injured pursuing cross-border firing by Pakistani forces contempt a ceasefire announcement on the Jammu and Kashmir border.

The Chief Minister expressed heavy sorrow implicit the demise of Rambabu Singh, a nonmigratory of Vasilpur colony successful the Gautam Buddha Nagar constabulary presumption area. Mr. Kumar announced an ex gratia magnitude of ₹50 lakh for the martyr’s adjacent of kin and said that his ceremonial would beryllium conducted with afloat constabulary honours.

“The state volition ever retrieve his sacrifice. May the Almighty springiness spot to the bereaved household to endure this hard time,” Mr. Kumar said.

Published - May 13, 2025 09:41 p.m. IST