CRPF man killed in Pulwama attack gets President’s police medal for Gallantry
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A complete of 207 police bravery medals had been declared by the Union authorities aside from 89 President’s police medals for distinguished service and 650 police medals for meritorious service, as per a listing revealed by the Union Home Ministry.
CRPF Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Mohan Lal who “chased and fired” at an explosives-laden automotive that rammed right into a pressure bus in Pulwama killing him and 39 troops onboard in 2019 has been embellished with the very best police medal for gallantry on the eve of the Republic Day on Monday.
A complete of 207 police bravery medals had been declared by the Union authorities aside from 89 President’s police medals for distinguished service and 650 police medals for meritorious service, as per a listing revealed by the Union Home Ministry.
Only two police personnel have been embellished with the highest class President’s Police Medal for Gallantry (PPMG) this time, CRPF’s Lal and late Jharkhand Police ASI Banua Oraon. As many as 205 personnel have been embellished with the second-highest police medal for gallantry or the PMG.
50-year-old ASI Lal was the picket commander of the CRPF street opening get together deployed on February 14, 2019 at milestone quantity 272 close to the BSNL Tower in Lethpora, Pulwama on the Jammu-Srinagar freeway when the dastardly terror attack was carried out by the Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorist outfit.
The attack automotive was being pushed by suicide bomber Adil Ahmed Dar with about 200kg of explosives inside. The CRPF stated Lal, after passing of few autos of the cavalcade, observed this automotive “running alongside the convoy and trying to enter between the convoy vehicles.” The courageous official “signalled and chased the car to stop but could not match its speed”.
“Ultimately, finding no other option, he fired towards the suspicious car to stop but the car rammed into a nearby running CRPF bus and a huge blast took place,” the pressure stated.
The large blast killed a complete of 40 CRPF personnel, 39 on the bus and Lal, it stated.
The sub-officer who belonged to the a hundred and tenth battalion of the pressure has been embellished with the PPMG for displaying gallantry throughout this incident, the pressure stated.
The Central Reserve Police Force, the lead pressure for anti-Naxal operations and counter-terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir, additionally led the gallantry medals tally with a complete 69 medals (1 PPMG and 68 PMG) adopted by 52 earned by the JK Police, 20 by the Border Security Force, 17 by the Delhi Police and 13 by Maharashtra Police and others.
Two personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) pressure, tasked to protect the Line of Actual Control with China, have additionally been given the police medal for gallantry.
Deputy Commandant Rajesh Kumar Luthra has been embellished for displaying braveness and presence of thoughts to defuse a faceoff with Chinese troops at Ladakh in July, 2019 whereas one other officer of the border guarding pressure, Assistant Commandant Anurag Kumar Singh, has been given a gallantry medal for the second time for endeavor a counter-terrorist operation in Jammu and Kashmir in 2017.
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