A pall of gloom descended in Jalandhar as the 19-year-old daughter Guneet Kaur lit the pyre of her father Lt Col Karanbir Singh Natt.
Lt Col Natt died on December 23. A Sena medal winner, the slain army officer was injured in an encounter with the terrorists in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir in 2015.
Lt Col Natt had joined the Short Service Commission in the Guards Regiment in 1998. In 2012, he was relieved after completing 14 years of service and he leter joined the 160 Territorial army unit.