600 jawans pulled out from borders for BSF DG’s farewell

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, February 27, 2016: At least 600 personnel from the Border Security Force (BSF) have been pulled out from the border regions for a grand farewell parade for BSF director general DK Pathak.

As per reports, 12 contingents will give the farewell salute to the outgoing BSF chief on Monday, 11 of them are surprisingly from border frontiers. The troops have been practising for the grand farewell in Delhi for a month. Sources even say leaves of several jawans have also been cancelled for this.

DK Pathak, the 23rd DG of the country’s largest border guarding force in the world, is a 1979 IPS officer from the Assam-Meghalaya cadre.