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Ashok Chakra for four
By Our Staff Reporter
CRPF Constable Kamlesh Kumari who has been awarded Ashok Chakra posthumously.
NEW DELHI, JAN. 25. Three security personnel _ the two Rajya Sabha Watch and Ward staff members, M.S. Negi and J.P. Yadav, and the CRPF constable, Kamlesh Kumari _ have been conferred Ashok Chakra for laying down their lives defending Parliament on December 13.
The security personnel challenged the five terrorists who stormed Parliament. They alerted the other security personnel about the presence of the terrorists and prevented a major tragedy.
Four other CRPF personnel, Head Constable Y.B. Thapa, and Constables D. Santosh Kumar, Sukhvinder Singh and Shyambir Singh, have been awarded Shaurya Chakra for exhibiting exemplary courage while countering and gunning down the terrorists.
The five Delhi policemen who were killed in the attack _ Nanak Chand, Rampal, Om Prakash, Ghanshyam and Brijender Singh _ attached to the Vice-President and Chairman of Rajya Sabha, Krishan Kant, have been decorated with the second highest peacetime gallantry award, Kirti Chakra.
The fourth recipient of the Ashok Chakra is Naik Rambeer Singh of Rashtriya Rifles, who laid down life while fighting foreign mercenaries in Jammu and Kashmir.
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