All of Mira Road had gathered on the streets of the suburb on Thursday morning, to pay their respects to Major Kaustubh Rane, 29, who died while foiling an infiltration bid in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. He was among four Indian Army personnel killed during the gunfight in north Kashmir's Gurez sector.

Major Rane's body, wrapped in the Tricolour, and kept in a casket was first brought to his Shanti Park home. The funeral procession started from there around 9.30 am. He was carried in a flower-bedecked truck. At a few junctions along the four-kilometre route from the Major's home to the crematorium, flowers were showered on the vehicle.