General Anil Chauhan is visiting the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington . He would have been due to give lecture that his predecessor was supposed to give but could not due to a chopper crash .
New Delhi (India), December 5: General Anil Chauhan, the country's first Chief of Defence Staff, is today visiting the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington, where he would give the lecture that his predecessor was supposed to give but could not due to a chopper crash.Gen Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat died in the chopper crash on December 8, 2021, while on his way to Wellington to deliver a speech, according to defence officials.Gen Rawat was Gen Chauhan will be attending the families of all the soldiers whose family members died in the chopper crash on December 8 last year at the National War Memorial, where the late CDS was buried.Gen Rawat and his wife Madhulika Rawat were killed in the crash when their chopper crashed into a hill amid heavy cloud cover after taking off from Sulur, Tamil Nadu.