NEW DELHI, May 2: An Assam Police Inspector and a CRPF trooper were today posthumously honoured with the Kirti Chakra– the second highest peacetime gallantry award– along with a Naib Subedar of the Army for their acts of bravery in anti-terrorist and anti-naxal operations.
Constable Bhrigu Nandan Choudhary of the CRPF and Inspector Lohit Sonowal of Assam Police were awarded the Kirti Chakra by President Pranab Mukherjee for their actions in anti-naxal operations in Bihar and anti-terrorist operations in Assam respectively.
The third recipient of Kirti Chakra, Naib Subedar Bhupal Singh Magar of 5/5 Gorkha Rifles, got the award for eliminating two terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir last year while guarding the Line of Control (LoC).
A resident of Rupendehi district of Nepal, Magar received the award for killing two terrorists from a heavily-armed group of ultras on the LoC with Pakistan on August 31 last year in Kupwara district.
Constable Bhrigu Nandan Choudhary of CRPF’s 205 Cobra Battalion was given the award posthumously for his role in foiling a Naxal attack in Gaya in Bihar on September 8, 2012 in which six Left-wing extremists were killed.
Inspector Sonowal received the award for killing two ULFA terrorists in Tinuskia district of Assam in an operation on April 19 last year.
Among the 10 Shaurya Chakra awardees, CRPF Deputy Commandant Prakash Ranjan Mishra was honoured for killing a naxal and making the extremists retreat from their position in an operation on September 17, 2012 in Chatra district of Jharkhand.
Maj Mandeep Singh Ghumman of 1 Assam Rifles received the third-highest gallantry award for eliminating two terrorists in anti-terrorist operation in the Northeast on May 8 last year.
Captain Sandeep Bhartiya of 17 Jat Regiment was awarded the Shaurya Chakra for killing a terrorist in an operation in Jammu and Kashmir.
Captain Mahabir Singh of 9 PARA (Special Forces) got the Shaurya Chakra for eliminating terrorists, who were part of a fidayeen (suicide) attack on an armoured regiment unit in Samba near Jammu on September 26 last year.
When terrorists were holding inside the unit buildings, Mahabir Singh entered the premises and shot dead one of them at point-blank range, the Army said.
Sepoy Lallawmzuala, a resident of Mizoram who was serving with the 18 Rashtriya Rifles (Artillery), was awarded the third highest peacetime gallantry award for an operation in Jammu and Kashmir on July 23 last year.
Lallawmzuala killed a top commander of Jaish-e-Mohammad during a search and cordon operation.
Major Swagat Kumar Das of 9 Sikh Light Infantry, Major Amarjeet Singh of 44 Assam Rifles, Captain Rampreet Singh of 3 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles and Naik Balwinder Singh of 22 Rashtriya Rifles (PUNJAB) also received the Shaurya Chakra from the President. (PTI)
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