New Delhi:
An Army medical officer, Major Laishram Jyotin Singh, has been posthumosuly awarded the Ashok Chakra, the highest peacetime gallantry award, for saving the life of his 10 colleagues during a terrorist attack on Indian mission in Afghanistan this year.
The officer was killed while fighting bare-handed the heavily armed suicide bombers who had attacked the Indian embassy residential compound in Kabul on February 26 this year.
Kirti Chakras were also awarded posthumously to Captain Davinder Singh Jass and Chhattisgarh Superintendent of Police Vinod Kumar Choubey.
Jass was given the award for counter-terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir while Chaubey will receive it for anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh.
114 gallantry awards including an Ashok Chakra, two Kirti Chakras, two Bar to Shaurya Chakras, nineteen Shaurya Chakras, two Bar to Sena Medal (Gallantry), eighty Sena Medals (Gallantry), three Nao Sena Medals (Gallantry) and five Vayu Sena Medal (Gallantry) have been conferred upon armed forces and police personnel on the Independence Day.
The officer was killed while fighting bare-handed the heavily armed suicide bombers who had attacked the Indian embassy residential compound in Kabul on February 26 this year.
Kirti Chakras were also awarded posthumously to Captain Davinder Singh Jass and Chhattisgarh Superintendent of Police Vinod Kumar Choubey.
Jass was given the award for counter-terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir while Chaubey will receive it for anti-Naxal operations in Chhattisgarh.
114 gallantry awards including an Ashok Chakra, two Kirti Chakras, two Bar to Shaurya Chakras, nineteen Shaurya Chakras, two Bar to Sena Medal (Gallantry), eighty Sena Medals (Gallantry), three Nao Sena Medals (Gallantry) and five Vayu Sena Medal (Gallantry) have been conferred upon armed forces and police personnel on the Independence Day.
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