‘His goodwill will last an eternity’: Assam Rifles remembers slain colonel Viplav Tripathi

Commanding officer of the Assam Rifles Viplav Tripathi, his wife and six-year-old son, besides four personnel of the country’s oldest paramilitary, were killed on Saturday in a welter of IED blasts and burst of gunfire in Manipur’s Churachandpur district. The four Assam Rifles personnel killed in the attack were Rfn Shyamal Das, Rfn Suman Swargiary, Rfn RP Meena and Rfn Khatnei Konyak.