Akshay donates Rs 9L each to kin of Sukma attack martyrs
March 16, 2017  20:23
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Actor Akshay Kumar has donated Rs 9 lakh each to the families of the 12 Central Reserve Police Force personnel who were killed in a recent Naxal ambush in Chhattisgarh.

Officials said, soon after the incident, the actor approached the Union Home Ministry with a request to obtain the bank account numbers of the family members of the jawans who were killed in the March 11 ambush as he wanted to make a monetary donation to them.

They said the Ministry, accepting Kumars request, directed the CRPF to share the bona fide bank account numbers of the families of the slain personnel.

Kumar, they said, transferred Rs 9 lakh each in the bank accounts on Wednesday.

'Kumar's gesture exhibits his patriotism and devotion towards the country in general and CRPF in particular,' the paramilitary force said in a statement.

The 12 personnel were killed in a deadly ambush in Chhattisgarh's worst Naxal-hit district of Sukma on March 11 when they were out on a patrol.

The deceased CRPF personnel have been identified as Inspector Jagjit Singh, Assistant Sub-inspectors H B Bhatt and Narender Kumar Singh, head constables Jagdish Prasad Vishnoi and P R Minde and constables Mangesh Pal Pandey, Rampal Singh Yadav, Goraknath, Nand Kumar Patra, Satish Kumar Verma, K Shankar and Suresh Kumar.
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