Soon after an Indian Air Force helicopter crash killed Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, his wife and other defence personnel near Coonoor, Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi convened a Cabinet Committee on Security meeting.
Besides Prime Minister Modi, the CCS meeting was attended by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Anilchandra Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar.
National Security Advisor Ajit Kumar Doval, Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister P K Misra and Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba also attended the meeting, in which the CCS members were briefed about the tragic accident.
Please click on the images to view glimpses of the CCS meeting.
IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the Cabinet Committee on Security in New Delhi on Wednesday. Home Minister Amit Anilchandra Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and External Affairs Minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar are members of the CCS. All photographs: ANI Photo
IMAGE: National Security Advisor Ajit Kumar Doval, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister P K Mishra can be seen at the meeting.
IMAGE: An official, extreme right, presuambly from the Department of Military Affairs, which General Rawat headed, likely briefed the CCS about the tragedy and its aftermath.
IMAGE: Special Forces stand guard outside General Rawat's New Delhi home on Wednesday. The general was protected by members of the Special Forces, all of who -- Naik Jitender Kumar, Havildar Satpal, Lance Naik Sai Teja and Lance Naik Vivek Kumar -- died in the helicopter crash with him.
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