Chandigarh: All his life, she says he never differentiated between sons and daughters and in his death too he lived by the same.

Madhu, 25-year-old daughter of Pathankot airbase attack martyr Honorary Capt Fateh Singh broke tradition and became one among the four to carry her father’s coffin to the pyre.

Singh, a  gold and silver medal winner at first Commonwealth Shooting Championships held in 1995 was on duty at Pathankot base as part of the Defence Security Corps when the attacks took place.

It is usually a tradition that sons become the pallbearers and perform the last rites of the parents. However, Madhu chose to perform all the traditions herself as a sea of emotions poured in at his native village in Gurdaspur district of Punjab where the last rites were performed.

She recalls that on the fateful day, her father was on duty and at about 3 am they heard the gunshots.

“The daughter says the moments were so scary that they hid themselves under the bed on the floor,” Madhu was reported in media. That morning, she had lost her father who valiantly fought the terrorists.