Army officer\'s mortal remains received in Hyderabad with military honours
Deccan ChronicleHyderabad: The mortal remains of Lt. Col. V. Vinay Bhanu Reddy, who died in a helicopter crash along with an Army pilot, Major Jayanth A. in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday, was received with military honours at the Air Force Station in Begumpet at 9 pm on Friday. Later, the mortal remains of Lt. Col. Reddy was taken to his native place Bommalaramaram in Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, by road. Chief of army staff Gen. Manoj Pande, along with Lt Gen Nav Kumar Khanduri, GOC, western command, will be present for the final rites. Lt Col Reddy and Major Jayanth were in the single-engine Cheetah helicopter when it crashed near Mandala in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh when they were in an operational sortie between Missamari in Assam's Sonitpur and Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.