NEW DELHI, JULY 23: ``It seems some people are sent for a special purpose and Haneef is one of them,'' said a dignified Hema Aziz, Haneefuddin's mother, after the strains of The Last Post faded away. The Army had bid farewell to the hero whose arrival was awaited for 42 days. Nafees and Samir led their mother back to their home.Lietenant Haneefuddin of the Rajputana Rifles was killed on June 7 while fighting in the Turtuk sub-sector of Kargil, exactly two years after he joined the Army. The 24-year-old officer was commissioned in the Army Service Corps (ASC) and was at a post-commission training attachment with the Rajputana Rifles. The Army had been unable to retrieve his body as it lay on a spot in the Line of Control (LoC) at the Turtuk sub-sector which was the focus of heavy firing. The operation to retrieve the body took place in the night.Brigadier Prakash Chaudhary of the Rajputana Rifles said: ``The Indian Army never leaves a comrade behind, come what may. Haneefuddin was part of my regiment and we decided to recover the body. There was a lot of snow out there. The body was recovered under intensive firing.''The body of Lance Naik Parvesh Kumar, who had accompanied Haneefuddin on the mission, was also recovered.His body has been sent to his home in Karnal. The body of the junior commissioned officer, Mangesh, is still to be rescued.
