Hundreds gathered outside the Besant Nagar crematorium in Chennai on Monday morning to pay their last respects to Major Mukund Varadarajan, who was killed along with sepoy Vikram Singh in an overnight encounter with terrorists in the Shopian district of South Kashmir on Friday.

Varadarajan's body arrived in Chennai by an Air India flight from Delhi at around 11.45 pm on Sunday night, after the wreath laying ceremonies were held at Srinagar on Sunday morning.

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