Bhopal: Group Captain Varun Singh, who passed away in Bengaluru while undergoing treatment for severe burn injuries due to chopper crash in Tamil Nadu, was cremated at Bairagarh crematorium in Bhopal on Friday. Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan paid last respects to Group Captain Varun Singh. 

Gp Capt Varun Singh breathed his last in Command Hospital Bengaluru on December 15 after battling for life for seven days. He was the lone survivor in the crash. 

आज भोपाल स्थित स्टेट हैंगर में मुख्यमंत्री श्री @ChouhanShivraj ने तमिलनाडु हेलीकॉप्टर हादसे में शहीद 'मध्यप्रदेश के लाल' विंग कमांडर वरूण सिंह जी की पार्थिव देह के दर्शन कर उन्हें श्रद्धांजलि अर्पित की। pic.twitter.com/B5Qj4h1p3h

— BJP MadhyaPradesh (@BJP4MP) December 16, 2021

Group Captain Varun Singh, the pilot of the IAF Mi-17 helicopter which crashed at Coonoor in Nilgiris, was airlifted to Command hospital in Bengaluru from Wellington for treatment. 

The pilot suffered severe burn injuries and was on a life support system at the Command hospital in Bengaluru. With the passing of Group Captain Varun Singh, the death toll in the chopper crash reached 14. No one survived the tragic chopper crash.

The Air Force officer, a highly qualified fighter pilot, was decorated with the Shaurya Chakra in August for his courage in handling his aircraft after it was hit by a snag during a sortie last year. He had managed to land his Tejas fighter safely.

In a tragic incident, the highest defence officer of India, India's first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Laxman Singh Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 others died in a chopper crash near Tamil Nadu's Coonoor in the Nilgiris on December 8, Wednesday.