New Delhi:
On Saturday, CRPF has been awarded the highest 21 police valor medal among all central and state police forces including two Shaurya Chakras issued by the Ministry of Defense on the eve of 76th Republic Day on Saturday.
A total of 95 valor medals have been awarded to the state and central police forces, firefighters, home guards and civil security and corrective services personnel through an order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
The Ministry of Defense also announced two values ​​for force’s Cobra Commando – Deputy Commandant Vikrant Kumar and Inspector Jeffrey Hingchulo – to carry out a courageous campaign against Maoists in Jharkhand during 2023.
According to his quotation, these 203 Commando Battalion for Resolut Action (Cobra) personnel demonstrated “extraordinary” bravery during a Naxal campaign in Chatra district of the state on April 2, 203, in which five people were killed. Top “Maoist and arms and ammunition seizures.
Shaurya Chakra is the third supreme peaceful military bravery medal.
A senior official of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) said that out of 19 police medals for Bravery (GM), 11 for campaigns in Jammu and Kashmir, for acts of bravery in seven Maoist campaigns and one courage Is taken Displayed during an operation in the Northeast.
Those who received the awards include second-in-command rank officer Narendra Yadav, and Assistant Commandant Amit Kumar and Vinay Kumar, who have been awarded to two GM (for the second time Bravery Medal).
The late constable Sunil Kumar Pandey has been nominated for a posthumous medal.
The 186th Battalion jawan gave his life in September 2023 while stopping the drug smugglers smuggling drug trafficking from Assam to Arunachal Pradesh in Assam. The attackers attacked him with a knife.
After the country’s largest paramilitary force CRPF, the highest medals were won by Uttar Pradesh (17), Jammu and Kashmir (15), Chhattisgarh (11) and Border Security Force (5).
Three Border Security Force (BSF) personnel deployed under the United Nations (UN) flag in Congo have also been awarded the bravery medal.
Inspector Jeetu Deori, Constable Ratan Kumar Yogi and Constable Awadhesh Kumar Yadav showed “exemplary courage” on 26 July 2022 to save 38 unarmed United Nations employees from the violent crowd attacking his camp in Butmbo.
BSF has been tasked to protect Indian borders with Pakistan and Bangladesh, besides fulfilling several other security duties, mainly.
CRPF with about 3.25 lakh personnel is the mainstay of internal security duties in the country.
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