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Independence Day: 5 Shaurya Chakras for war on terror & Naxals
NEW DELHI: Three
CRPF
personnel who displayed exemplary courage and resilience during encounters with terrorists in J&K shall receive Shaurya Chakra.
Two other police personnel named for Shaurya Chakra this Independence Day eve are anti-Naxal encounter specialists of Chhattisgarh Police - inspectors Laxman Kewat and Rameshwar Prasad Deshmukh.
On Thursday, home ministry also announced 1,090 police medals, including 233 for gallantry, for personnel of police, fire, home guard, civil defence, and correctional services. As many as 99 police personnel were picked for the President's Medal for Distinguished Service (PSM) and 758 for Medal for Meritorious Service (MSM).
While two CRPF Shaurya Chakra awardees - constables Sanjay Tiwari and Feda Hussain - had engaged in a fierce terrorist encounter in Srinagar on Nov 2, 2024, and neutralised hardcore terrorists despite being injured, constable Saddam Hussain had killed a foreign terrorist three days later in a critical engagement with terrorists in Bandipora.
Among 1,090 medals announced on Thursday, J&K police lead the table with 143 medals, followed by UP police with 95, CRPF with 82, BSF with 67, Maharashtra police with 49, Intelligence Bureau with 31, Gujarat police with 23, Andhra police with 22, and CBI with 21 medals. As many as 18 medals were announced for Delhi Police, including three PSM and 15 MSM.
Among the 233 personnel honoured for bravery, 127 (or over 54%), are from J&K police, 20 from CRPF, 17 from UP police, 16 from BSF, 14 from Chhattisgarh police, nine from Odisha police, seven each from Maharashtra police and Bihar police, five from Jharkhand police, three from Assam police, and one from Telangana police.
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Also, six fire personnel from Delhi, J&K and Maharashtra and a home guard/civil defence personnel from UP have been picked for gallantry medals.
While 152 gallantry medals honour actions in
Jammu and Kashmir
, 54 were announced for brave acts in Left-wing extremism-hit areas, three in the North-East and 24 in other regions. Five gallantry awards will be conferred posthumously.
Twelve of the 14 gallantry medal awardees from Chhattisgarh police are personnel of District Reserve Guard (DRG), which comprises mostly surrendered and former Maoists.
DRG has been instrumental in blowing the cover of senior Maoist figures and has been in the lead during anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh.
In fact, it were DRG personnel who neutralised top Maoist Basavaraju in May this year. The awards this year, though, are operations undertaken in 2020, 2021 and 2023.
Senior Chhattisgarh police officer Sunil Sharma (IPS), who as Sukma superintendent of police had led an operation that resulted in neutralisation of two Maoists, is also on the 2025 gallantry medal list.
