DGP Pathak cremated with police honours

Principal Secretary (Home) S K Nanda,State Chief Secretary Varesh Sinha and IAS officers Bhagyesh Jha and G C Murmu attended the guard of honour event.

The convoy of 20 to 25 cars with around 140 IPS officers and more than 300 policemen escorted the body to the crematorium near VS Hospital in the city. Pathak’s body was cremated at Mukti Dham cremetorium in Ahmedabad at around 10.30 am after the police department fired a salute to honour him.

His funeral was attended by former DGPs S S Khandwawala,Chitranjan Singh and retired IPS officers Sudhir Sinha,O P Mathur,M M Mehta,V V Rabari and K Nityanandam. The IPS officers from all districts remained present at the cremation. IPS officer Satish Verma was also seen with a walking stick at the ceremony.

Pathak’s body had arrived in Ahmedabad on Saturday at 11.20 pm from Mumbai. His family,who brought the body from Thailand,had reached Mumbai at 6 pm a day earlier. IPS officer Vikas Sahay was sent to Mumbai to assist the family. A prayer meeting for him is scheduled on August 26 at the Gujarat Convention Hall in Ahmedabad from 8.30 am to 10.30 am.