Nineteen Soldiers Who Carried Out The Surgical Strike In PoK Honored With Gallantry Awards
19 army personnel from two Special Forces battalions which carried out surgical strikes along the Line of Control last September were decorated Wednesday with gallantry awards. This include one Kirti Chakra and five Shaurya Chakra while their commanding officers have been given Yudh Sewa Medal.
Nineteen army personnel from two Special Forces battalions which carried out surgical strikes along the Line of Control last September were decorated Wednesday with gallantry awards.
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This include one Kirti Chakra and five Shaurya Chakra while their commanding officers have been given Yudh Sewa Medal.
Major Rohit Suri of 4 Para, who led one of the teams across the LoC targeting terrorists' launch pads, was awarded the Kirti Chakra, second highest peacetime gallantry award.
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Colonel Kapil Yadav, Commanding Officer of 9 Para SF, and Colonel Harpreet Sandhu, Commanding Officer of 4 Para SF, were awarded the Yudh Seva Medal for the operation.
However, in a departure from existing practice, the army did not release the citations of the awarded personnel.
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The two special forces units carried out one of India's most daring strikes on terrorists across the border after they crossed the LoC on September 23rd and hit the terror launchpads of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Muhammad inflicting heavy damages to the terror infrastructure there.
It was in response to the terror attack on the Uri Army camp on September 18, which led to the death of 19 Army soldiers.
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