A Soldier Who Protects India’s Border Even After Death

This is the story of Baba Harbhajan Singh, an Indian Army soldier, who died in 1968 but his ghost is believed to still be protecting his brothers-in-arms at the border. Born in a village of Punjab in 1941, Harbhajan Singh enrolled himself in the Indian Army in 1956.

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In 1965, he was granted a commission and was posted to serve with the 14 Rajput Regiment. It was in the year 1967, near Nathu-La pass, that Singh met his end after slipping and drowning in a glacier while he was leading a column of mules carrying supplies to a lonesome outpost