Ashok Chakra for late Major Mukund Varadarajan for killing terrorists in Shopian
August 14, 2014  16:01
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India's highest peacetime gallantry award, the Ashok Chakra, will be awarded posthumously to Major Mukund Varadarajan's family tomorrow on Independence Day.

Major Mukund Varadarajan, 32, of the 44th Battalion of the Rashtriya Rifles was killed in an encounter with Hizbul Mujahideen militants in Shopian in South Kashmir in April this year. On 25 April 2014, based on specific intelligence about the presence of three dreaded terrorists in a house in village Karewa Manloo of district Shopian, in Jammu and Kashimr, a joint operation, led by Major Vardarajan of 44 Rashtriya Rifles of Army and J&K Police was launched.

In the operation, involving fierce encounter and gallant acts of Major Mukund Vardarajan and Sepoy Vikram Singh, all the three terrorists were killed.

These terrorists had been active in the area since 2012 and intelligence inputs indicate that the same group was involved in the attack on the polling staff on 24 April in South Kashmir. 
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