Cpt. Manoj Pandey, Param Veer Chakra (P)

He was the brave soul. His answer to a question at SSB was that he wanted to join the Force to be awarded Param Vir Chakra.

This answer subsequently shocked everyone related to him as he achieved what he had said. In his own words "One should join the Infantry in Army and in Infantry one must prefer the Gorkha Regiment". He made the regiment proud of his supreme act of bravery.

His words : "If death strikes before I prove my blood, I swear I'll kill death.... Some goals are so worthy it's glorious even to fail."

His last words were, "Na Chodnu" (Don't Spare Them).

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Lt.Triveni Singh, Ashok Chakra (P)

This brave son of India was from Pathankot, Punjab. He was born on February1,1978 at Namkum, in the house Capt. Janmej Singh(Rtd.) & Mrs.Pushplata.

Triveni was trained in martial arts. He cleared his examination forIMA, Dehradun. And he was commissioned in the army on December 3, 2001. After commissioning he joined the 5 JAKLI reputaded for its bravary & decoration in the Indian Army.

On the evening of January 02, 2004 Lt. Triveni Singh found out about the fidayeen. On being ordered to challenge the militants, Lt. Triveni Singh rushed to the Jammu railway station with five commandos.

In a swift action he killed the first militant and followed the other who was firing from the overhead rail bridge. Lt.Triveni Singh knew that the hidden militant was equipped with lethal weapons and could kill over 300 passengers who were in the parcel room. To save the innocent people, he grabbed the miilitant and injured him self fatally. Lt. Triveni Singh was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra for displaying extreme gallantry, utmost courage and selfless act of supreme sacrifice.

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Shaheed Abdul Hamid, Param Veer Chakra

Company Quarter Master Havildar Abdul Hamid of 4 Grenadiers, Indian Army was posthumously awarded the highest gallantry award of the Republic of India, the Param Vir Chakra, during the 1965 Indo-Pak War.

He is the first and only Muslim to have been awarded the nation's highest military honour.

He had destroyed many Pakistani tank's and accepted Jannat for our country.

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Lt. Parthiban, Kirti Chakra (P)

"Have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat, then you will not be ashamed to look at the mirror...."
- LT N. PARTHIBAN Kirti Chakra

SS-41837 Lieutenant Parthiban of 5 JAK LI, laid down his life in a CI operation in a forest area in Gurej sector of Jammu & Kashmir on 7th Oct 2006.

He shot dead 3 militants & incapacitated one. It was the one man show done till his last breath even after receiving 2 fatal bullets! His GOC recommended him for AC, who had also met our Parthi in the earlier months when he shot dead 2 terrorists.

This brave man, ex NCC cadet, aged 23, was born on 21 Aug 1983. A Physics grad frm BHC, Trichy, Gold medalist in map reading n shooting.

He was a Sgt. at OTA. He passed out of OTA on Mar 18 '06 as an officer. He was very patriotic, not just by words but thru his deeds, completely committed to any work he took, evr willing to teach & help others.

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Major Shaitan Singh (PVC)

Major Shaitan Singh, son of Lieutenant Colonel Hem Singhji, was commissioned in the Kumaon Regiment on 01 August 1949.

During the 1962 Indo-China conflict, 13 Kumaon was deployed in Chushul sector. The C Coy of the battalion led by Major Shaitan Singh held a crucial position at Rezang La, at a height of 5000 metres. The company area was defended by five platoon positions and the surrounding terrain isolated it from the rest of the battalion. The expected Chinese attack on Rezang La came on November 18th in the morning. It was the end of a very cold winter night. The icy winds howling through Rezang La were biting and benumbing.

In the dim light of the morning, the Chinese were seen advancing through nullahs to attack No.7 and No.8 platoon positions. The Indian troops fell on their prepared positions to face the enemy offensive. At 0500 hours when the visibility improved both platoons opened up on the advancing enemy with rifles, light machine guns, grenades and mortars. The nullahs were littered with dead bodies.

Captain Ashok Jasrotia

In September 1995, intelligence had placed a team of Lashkar-e-Toiba group in a mountain cave where nearly 20 foreign mercenaries were holed up in the Lolab Valley.

A team led by Captain Ashok Jasrotia of 9th SF moved up the 7000 feet mountain. By dawn they had moved into position when they were spotted. Finding his men in a disadvantageous position under rocket and rifle fire, he led the assault culminating in a fierce hand-to-hand fight. Captain Jasrotia threw a grenade and charged the militant and shot him in the process taking a bullet in the shoulder.

Another militant tried to bludgeon him but Captain Jasrotia managed to kill him with his commando knife. As he moved towards the cave a hidden militant shot him in the chest and stomach. The rest of the commandos finished off the group.

The tough Captain hung on for 10 days dying en-route to New Delhi for medical attention. He was awarded the Ashok Chakra posthumously.

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Flying Officer Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon

Param Vir Chakra is the highest medal for gallantry of Indian Military. Since 1947, Indian defense forces have participated in various campaigns all around India and world. India fought three wars with Pakistan in 1948, 1965 and in 1971, One war with china in 1962.

Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon(aka Nimmy) was born on 17 July 1945 at Rurka Isewal village in Ludhiana District in the house of Sardar Trilok Singh Sekhon, a retired Flight Lieutenant of Indian Air Force. As any normal Sikh child, he was raised with the virtue of gallantry and sacrifice by his parents. He joined Indian Air Force as a Flying officer in 1968.

Flying Officer Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon was a pilot of a Gnat detachment(18 Squadron "The Flying bullets") based at Srinagar for the air defence of the valley against Pakistani air attacks. From the very outbreak of the hostilities he and his colleagues fought successive waves of intruding Pakistani aircraft with valour and determination, maintaining the high reputation of the Gnat aircraft.

On 14th December 1971, Srinagar airfield was attacked by a wave of enemy Sabre aircraft. Flying Officer Sekhon was on readiness duty at the time. Immediately, however, no fewer than six enemy aircraft were overhead. They began bombing and strafing the airfield and prevented the Indian aircraft from taking off.

Inspite of the mortal danger of attempting to take off during the attack, Flying Officer Sekhon took off and immediately engaged a pair of the attacking Sabres. In the fight that ensued, he secured hits on one aircraft and set another on fire. By this time, the other Sabre aircraft came to the aid of their hard-pressed companions and Flying Officer Sekhon's Gnat was again outnumbered, this time by four to one.

Even though alone, Flying Officer Sekhon engaged the enemy in an unequal combat. In the fight that followed, at treetop height, he almost held his own, but was eventually overcome by the sheer weight of numbers. His aircraft crashed and he was killed. But his struggle was not in vain. The Sabre jets, unable to press home their attack on the town and its airfield, immediately retreated.

The sublime heroism, supreme gallantry, flying skill and determination far and beyond the call of duty displayed by Fg Offr Sekhon in the face of certain death have set new heights to Air Force tradition. The "Param Vir Chakra" (the nation's highest gallantry award) was posthumously awarded to Flying Officer N.J.S. Sekhon.


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Naib Subedar Bana Singh

Naib Subedar Bana Singh, born in Kadyal, Jammu on 6 January 1949, was enrolled in the Indian Army on 6 January 1969 into the Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry (JAK LI). During June 1987, the 8 JAK LI, was deployed in the Siachen area. It was then found that a large number of Pakistani infiltrators had intruded in the Siachen Glacier.

The Pakistani intrusion had taken place at a height of 6500 metres. The enemy post was virtually an impregnable glacier fortress with ice walls, 457 metres high, on either side. Naib Subedar Bana Singh led his men through an extremely difficult and hazardous route. He inspired them by his courage and leadership. He and his men crawled and closed in on the adversary. Lobbing hand-grenades, charging with a bayonet and moving from trench to trench, he cleared the post of all intruders. Naib Subedar Bana Singh was awarded the Param Vir Chakra, the highest wartime gallantry medal, for conspicuous bravery and leadership under most adverse conditions.

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Major Pitambare

I asked him why don't you take a transfer outside Kashmir. He said his country needs him the most there. I again felt proud and envious of him.

On the night of November 27, Major Pitambare (3rd Para SF) was leading an operation to nab Suhail Faisal alias Mohammad Ashraf Shah, the supreme commander of Hizbul Mujahideen.
Major Manish got the information from his sources about the terrorists’ whereabouts. Wasting no time he attacked the camp killed the terrorist and in the process lost his life. He has a wife and a daughter- age 8 months.
Major Manish never said ‘I have a daughter’ before he took the decision to attack the terrorist hide out on the darkest of nights? He never thought about having a family and he being the sole bread earner.

THIS PLACE IS TO PAY HOMAGE TO ONE OF THE BRAVEST SON'S OF MOTHER INDIA! SO THAT AT LEAST A FEW PEOPLE REMEMBER HIS NAME.. FOREVER.

WE ALL SALUTE YOU SIR!!
LONG LIVE THE PARACHUTE REGIMENT!!

SHATRUJEET!!

JAI HIND!!

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