JAIPUR: Major Sankalp Yadav, who spent his childhood in the colonies in and around the Nand Puri area of Jaipur, had given a nod to his parents to look for a suitable girl for marriage this year. Yadav was turning 29 on March 29 this month. However, he did not live to celebrate.
On Friday, Maj Yadav attained martyrdom when an Army Cheetah helicopter on an evacuation mission of an ailing soldier crashed in the Baraub area of Gurez in Bandipura district of Srinagar.