Sepoy Vikram Singh

It could have been anyone's home video. A doting father with his daughter on his lap. Singing a song together. Except, this was no ordinary home video. And this was no ordinary father.

Major Mukund Varadarajan, who killed three terrorists in Kashmir before he was shot dead in April this year, has been awarded the Ashok Chakra, the nation's highest peace-time gallantry award.

The wreath laying ceremony of Major Mukund Vardarajan and sepoy Vikram Singh who were killed in the Shopian encounter in Jammu & Kashmir was held at Srinagar this morning.

It could have been anyone's home video. A doting father with his daughter on his lap. Singing a song together. Except, this was no ordinary home video. And this was no ordinary father.

Major Mukund Varadarajan, who killed three terrorists in Kashmir before he was shot dead in April this year, has been awarded the Ashok Chakra, the nation's highest peace-time gallantry award.

The wreath laying ceremony of Major Mukund Vardarajan and sepoy Vikram Singh who were killed in the Shopian encounter in Jammu & Kashmir was held at Srinagar this morning.