'Proud and relieved': Kerala victim N Ramachandran’s daughter hails Operation Sindoor in Pakistan, PoK

KOCHI: Hours after airstrikes on terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir under Operation Sindoor, the family of N Ramachandran, who was shot dead by terrorists in Pahalgam last month, expressed ‘relief’ and said that they feel proud.The terrorists had murdered Ramachandran in front of his daughter Arti Menon and her two sons.Arti Menon said that she felt relief on hearing the news of India attacking the terrorist camps. “India’s response by targeting terror camps in Pakistan is a very comforting news for us at the moment of grief. We are hoping that India will continue to strike hard on such terror camps and ensure that no terrorist will ever think of attacking India and its innocent people. The Operation Sindoor is very apt and I am hoping that all families of the victims will feel some sort of relief with this justice being served,” Arti Menon told TOI.She said that the family is very much proud of India retaliating. “We can do just that. We can’t go there and act something from the forefront. When the Prime Minister told (about retaliating), we had believed it. But the apt time was known to them only. We had prayed that they (the culprits) could be targeted rightly. I had provided all support to the investigation. I had the wish to do whatever I could. I will continue to do it,” she added.“Our loss is irreparable. We will not get back our father. The sights I saw (killing her father) can’t be erased from the mind until death. But we have some sort of comfort, and we are very proud now,” Arti Menon said.It was when Ramachandran, touring in Pahalgam, along with his wife Sheela, daughter Arti, grandsons Kedar S Menon and Drupat S Menon that terrorists gunned him down along with others.