With 17 gun salutes war hero Air Marshal Arjan Singh given a hero's farewell
Singh's mortal remains were earlier carried on a gun carriage, draped in the national tricolour, and taken to Delhi's Brar Square for the last rites.
Defence Minister Namrata Sitharaman, Former PM Manmohan Singh followed the air force officers carrying the casket.
Military band played farewell tune as the entire nation bed adieu to the 1965 war hero, who was the only defence officer to have received five star decoration.
Sukhoi fighter jets flew past in the missing man formation in honour of the Indian Air Force's only Marshal.
Arjan Singh passed away at a hospital in New Delhi on Saturday. He was 98.
He was admitted to the hospital following a cardiac arrest, read a government statement.
He was being treated at the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Sciences Centre of the hospital.
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