Gallantry awards: CRPF, NIA steal the show

Constable Gurnam Singh of R S Pura, head constable Sushil Kumar of Haryana and head constable Jitendra Kumar of Bihar died during the fighting, said IG BSF for Jammu Frontiers Ram Awtar.

The CRPF personnel received the most gallantry medals for the sacrifices they made in guarding the nation. Officers of the National Investigation Agency too were recognised for their probe into the Hurriyat Terror Funding case among others.

For his meritorious service, NIA SP, Arvind Digvijay Negi, who is handling the Hurriyat Terror Funding probe was awarded the police medal. A Himachal Pradesh-cadre officer, Negi was promoted to the IPS last year. He has probed fake currency and IS recruitment cases during his stint at NIA. He also played a key role in busting the MBBS admission scam in Himachal Pradesh.

A Chhattisgarh police officer who died fighting Maoists has been named along with 190 others for gallantry while 989 central and state police personnel will get various service medals.

NIA officer C Radhakrishna Pillai, a deputy SP at Kochi, was chosen for the police medal for his distinguished service. Most of the personnel 53 of 190 named for the medals are from the CRPF, the lead force for anti-Maoist operations.

Chhattisgarh Police platoon commander Shankar Rao (posthumous) is the lone recipient of the top President's Police Medal for Gallantry for leading his team during the Sukma Maoist ambush in April 2015.

Among the award winners are six IPS officers working in LWE-affected states. A six-member CRPF team that killed two terrorists in Nowhatta in Srinagar on August 15 last year will be awarded.

Constable Gurnam Singh of R S Pura, head constable Sushil Kumar of Haryana and head constable Jitendra Kumar of Bihar died during the fighting, said IG BSF for Jammu Frontiers Ram Awtar.

BSF constable Gurnam Singh, who died while foiling an infiltration bid by a group of heavily armed terrorists from across the international border in Kathua district last October, was among three awarded the President's Police Medal for Gallantry posthumously on the eve of Independence Day.

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