Monday, 20 March 2017

Surgical strike heroes honoured with gallantry awards

most important rohit suri, who led the army team that completed the bold cross-border surgical strike final year, turned into on monday decorated with 2d highest peacetime gallantry award kirti chakra by using president pranab



orporal gursevak singh of indian air pressure changed into posthumously conferred the shaurya chakra for placing up a valiant fight towards terrorists who had attacked the frontline pathankot air base in january closing yr.

Major Rohit Suri, who led the army team that carried out the daring cross-border surgical strike last year, Surgical Strike Heroes Honoured With Gallantry Awards By President
lt trendy praveen bakshi, who's heading the navy's japanese command and the seniormost navy officer in phrases of service, became conferred the param vishisht seva medal. others who have been given this award consist of vice admiral girish luthra, vice admiral harish chandra and air marshal jasbir walia.

the gallantry awards had been given through the president at rashtrapati bhavan inside the presence of vice president hamid ansari, prime minister narendra modi and defence minister arun jaitley amongst others.

suri, from the parachute regiment, become the challenge leader of the crew which become tasked to carry out the operation towards the hideout of the terrorists in jammu and kashmir, an authentic launch briefing approximately the awardees stated.

it stated important suri confirmed exemplary leadership and courage past name of responsibility and "once all terrorists have been neutralised", he directed the strike team to move to jungle towards north west of the goal."

suri displayed utter disregard to his private protection and showing "raw courage", neutralised two terrorists in a near area fight, it said.

naib subedar vijay kumar became conferred the shaurya chakra for his daredevilry in killing  terrorists within the operation regardless of coming underneath fireplace.

"naib subedar vijay kumar opened extraordinarily heavy volume of fire onto the terrorist hideout, thereby enabling clean ultimate in by means of the attack group to the target," the discharge said.

some of other personnel who had participated within the operations have been additionally offered.

the navy performed surgical strikes on terrorist launchpads across the road of manipulate in september ultimate 12 months, after a militant attack on an army camp in uri in jammu and kashmir claimed the lives of nineteen jawans. the authorities, so far, has no longer discovered the number of terrorists killed in the strike.

lt popular devraj anbu, lt gen abhay krishna and lt gen rajendra nimbhorkar have been conferred uttam yuddh seva medal. a total of twenty-two personnel were given ati vishisht seva medal, at the same time as 15 had been bestowed with param vishisht seva medal.

corporal singh turned into presented the shaurya chakra for displaying exemplary braveness in stopping terrorists from coming into the technical region of the pathankot airbase, thereby ensuring safety of all aircraft and different strategic assets.

folks that have been conferred shaurya chakra protected naik bir singh of 21st parachute regiment (special forces), captain gaurav sharad jadhav of 36th battalion, rastriya rifles, fundamental rahul dev singh of third battalion, rashtriya rifles and sepoy hari chettri, ninth battalion of rastriya rifles.

the personnel who had been given the award posthumously are naik shinde shankar chandrabhan from forty first battalion, rastriya rifles, captain tushar mahaja of nine para, captain pawan kumar of 10 para and lance naik om parkash of nine para.

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