'His Wife Doesn't Live With Us Anymore': Captain Anshuman Singh's Parents Demand Revision In 'Next Of Kin' Rule

Days after their son received a posthumous Kirti Chakra, India's second-highest peacetime gallantry award, parents of Captain Anshuman Singh have called for changes in the Indian Army's ‘next of kin’ (NOK) policy, under which financial assistance is provided to family members in case of an army personnel's death.

Captain Anshuman Singh (right) and his widow Smriti Singh.

Speaking to TV9 Bharatvarsh, Ravi Pratap Singh and Manju Singh, the late army officer's parents, put forward their appeal, saying that they want NOK rules to be ‘revisited’ as Smriti Singh, their daughter-in-law, receives most of the entitlements after Anshuman's death, but does not live with them any more.

An on-duty Captain Anshuman Singh died in a fire incident in Siachen in July last year.