New Delhi: Police Jammu & Kashmir pocketed more than 60% of the Gallantry medal police provided on the day of the Republic of Eve this year, won 113 out of a total of 189 given: recognition that at the same time underlined the challenges of terrorism security and the role that grew played by local police in fight it.
13 other awards have gone to the CRPF personnel deployed in J & K.
Among the paramilitary forces, CPRF walked away with the maximum police medal for Galantry (PMG), pocketed 17 others due to dealing with left wing extremism.
Of the total 939 police medals given this year, 189 was a police medal for Gallantry (PMG), 88 President Police Medal (PPM) for merit service and 662 police medals (PM) for merit service.
There was no medal of the President’s police for Gallantry (PPMG), the highest Galantry medal for the police, was awarded this year.
Five Galanthry Medals are being awarded annually.
Winners include three CRPF personnel – CT Rohit Kumar, HC Deep Chand Verma and CT Kanai Majee – One SSB Constable Niraj Chetry and one personnel of the Odisha Kabasi Jayaram police.
About 70% of the 189 Police Gallantry Awards are to act against terrorists at J & K, 47 for operations in the separate areas of the left wing and one for the action of courage in the northeastern region.
While 115 Galanthry medals went to the police J & K, CRPF Baged 30, ITBP and SSB respectively, BSF Two, Police Chhattisgarh 10, Police Odisha Nine, Maharashtra police, Madhya Pradesh police and police Delhi and Manipur police each.
Police J & K occupied a list of police medals with 132 medals (14%), followed by CRPF (92), police up (79) and BSF (53), Maharashtra police (51) and CISF (28).
CBI is respected with 29 police medals, 34 intelligence agencies, RPF 16, Nia and BPR & D Five Medal.
Aijaz Ahmad Dar, Nazir Ahmad Lone and Jahangeer Hussain Magray from Police J & K was awarded to kill three operative Lashker-e-Taiba, including two A-category terrorists, on July 12, 2020, in anti-terrorist operations “successful and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean and clean “.
In densely populated areas without collateral damage.
The head of the CRPF Constable Deep Chand Verma and the other four were awarded to act against terrorists in Sopore, Baramulla on July 1, 2020.
He reached the martyr after being shot by a terrorist.
CT Anand Oraon and Sunder Singh from BSF deployed at the Indo-Bangladesh border both gave PMG to fight Bangladesh’s smugglers in separate incidents in 2019 and 2021 respectively.
Late Jayaram Kabasi from Odisha Armed Police and eight others were honored for anti-naxal operations in 2019.
SSB Cottable Niraj Chretry was respected for thwarting Naxal attacks in 2019.