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Monday, January 28th, 2008 |
The body of martyr Capt Sunil Kumar Chaudhary, SM was flown in a special aircraft from Dibrugarh to Pathankot this morning and will arrive there later in the evening.
Capt SK Chaudhary, SM was martyred little after noon yesterday in a counter insurgency operation in Village Barapathar (Tinsukia), Assam. In this operation the brave officer had killed two militants of 28 Bn of ULFA, even after being shot in his neck. He later succumbed to the injuries.
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 |
Amandeep Shukla in Indian Express
RAMPUR, JANUARY 2: At 10 am, as the seven coffins were lined up in a row and jawans and family fought tears, all the talk was about how those killed in yesterday’s terror strike had served in some of the most adverse circumstances in the North-East and Jammu and Kashmir, fighting insurgency and militancy.
And that perhaps, it was the “tranquility” of Rampur that made them an easy target in an attack that a top CRPF official called “wouldn’t have lasted more than five minutes.”
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Monday, December 24th, 2007 |
I go where my men go,’ Colonel Vasanth Venugopal told his mother when she asked him if a colonel should participate in all operations conducted by his men. (in Rediff)
He was awarded nation’s highest peacetime gallantry medal, the Ashok Chakra after death.
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Monday, December 24th, 2007 |
Captain R. Harshan of 2 Para Special Force and his body guard Lance Naik Bhawan Sing of uttarakhand, were martyred in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir on March 20, 2007. His other bodyguard Havildar Sunil Anna Kachre’, sustained gunshot wounds.
“I had known him all the four years that he had been in 2 Para. I had not met another officer like him in any Special Forces formation. So quiet and so soft spoken that we often have to really prod him to speak up, yet so good at his job that he was handling the entire training of his formation by himself,” says Lt Colonel S Srivastava, second in command of Harshan’s battalion who brought the body to Thiruvanantapuram.
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Friday, December 14th, 2007 |
Operation Vijay and its heroes were being remembered that day at the Amar Jawan Jyoti, since morning. DD1 carried it live. Replete with Kargil capers, I decided to visit the exhibition, that, the combined Services had laid on at the India Gate lawns.
Naturally, Robin was not there. He had been killed in action, last year. Lucky, to meet his father though, who had a posthumous Vir Chakra to show for his martyred son. We had last seen him in Barrackpore. He was only a toddler those days, and used to come to our place to play with my little girl Cuckoo. Like his father, had a lot of go even then.
Capt. Vijayant Thapar in his Childhood
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