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Captain Sehgal's body donated for medical research

By PTI
July 24, 2012 13:38 IST
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As a huge crowd bid her the final farewell, veteran freedom fighter Captain Lakshmi Sehgal's body was on Tuesday taken to the Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial  Medical College medical college here where it would be donated for research.

The body of Sehgal, who passed away on Monday at the age of 97, was taken in a procession from the McRobert hospital.

Suhasini Ali, daughter of the freedom fighter and Communist Party of Indiap-Marxist leader said, "As per her last wish we have donated her eyes and her body would be donated for medical research and handed over to the GSVM college".

Union Minister Vyalar Ravi, CPI-M leader Brinda Karat, Sehgal's filmmaker grandson Shad Ali and other prominent media personalities paid their tributes at her last farewell.

Karat remembered the leader as a 'highly politically motivated human being who fought injustice wherever she saw it...She served people with every ounce of strength'.

On Monday, after her demise, leaders from across the political spectrum lauded Sehgal's contribution to the country.

Sehgal, who was part of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army, breathed her last at a private hospital at 11.20 AM on Monday.

She was admitted to the hospital on July 19 after she suffered a heart attack at her residence in the Civil Lines area in Kanpur.
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