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Colonel Santosh Mahadik’s body being taken for last rites at Pogarwadi village in Satara on Thursday. (Source: Express Photo by Arul Horizon) Colonel Santosh Mahadik’s body being taken for last rites at Pogarwadi village in Satara on Thursday. Funeral pyre of Colonel Santosh Mahadik being lit by his son. Talking about her children, Kartikee and Swaraj, Col Mahadik’s wife Swati told the minister that both will join the armed forces. (Source: Express Photo by Arul Horizon)Famous as a village of soldiers, Pogarwadi on Thursday bid a tearful adieu to its son, Colonel Santosh Mahadik (37), who was martyred during a fierce gunbattle with militants in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district..