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सं. 40] नई दिल्ली, शनिवार, अक्तूबर 3—अक्तूबर 9, 2020 (आश्विन 11, 1942)

No. 40] NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3—OCTOBER 9, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942)

इस भाग में भिन्न पृष्ठ संख्या दी जाती है जिससे कि यह अलग संकलन के रूप में रखा जा सके।

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पृष्ठ सं.

विषय-सूची पृष्ठ सं.

भाग I—खण्ड-1—(रक्षा मंत्रालय को छोड़कर) भारत सरकार के मंत्रालयों और उच्चतम न्यायालय द्वारा जारी की गई विधितर नियमों, विनियमों, आदेशों तथा संकल्पों से सम्बन्ध्ति अध्सिूचनाएं. .............. 491 भाग I—खण्ड-2—(रक्षा मंत्रालय को छोड़कर) भारत सरकार के मंत्रालयों और उच्चतम न्यायालय द्वारा जारी की गई सरकारी अधिकारियों की नियुक्तियों, पदोन्नतियों, छुट्टियों आदि के सम्बन्ध् में अध्सिूचनाएं. .............................................. 641 भाग I—खण्ड-3—रक्षा मंत्रालय द्वारा जारी किए गए संकल्पों और असांविधिक आदेशों के सम्बन्ध में अध्सिूचनाएं. .............................................. 7 भाग I—खण्ड-4—रक्षा मंत्रालय द्वारा जारी की गई सरकारी अधिकारियों की नियुक्तियों, पदोन्नतियों, छुट्टियों आदि के सम्बन्ध में अध्सिूचनाएं. ..... 1579 भाग II—खण्ड-1—अधिनियम, अध्यादेश और विनियम. ............ [ भाग II—खण्ड-1क—अधिनियमों, अध्यादेशों और विनियमों का हिन्दी भाषा में प्राधिकृत पाठ. ................ [ भाग II—खण्ड-2—विधेयक तथा विधेयकों पर प्रवर समितियों के बिल तथा रिपोर्ट. ................................... [ भाग II—खण्ड-3—उप खण्ड (i)—भारत सरकार के मंत्रालयों (रक्षा मंत्रालय को छोड़कर) और केन्द्रीय प्राधिकरणों (संघ शासित क्षेत्रों के प्रशासनों को छोड़कर) द्वारा जारी किए गए सामान्य सांविध्कि नियम (जिनमें सामान्य स्वरूप के आदेश और उपविधियां आदि भी शामिल हैं). .................. [ भाग II—खण्ड-3—उप खण्ड (ii)—भारत सरकार के मंत्रालयोेंं (रक्षा मंत्रालय को छोड़कर) और केन्द्रीय प्राधिकरणों (संघ शासित क्षेत्रों के प्रशासनों को [आंकड़े प्राप्त नहीं हुए।

1—261 GI/2020

छोड़कर) द्वारा जारी किए गए सांविधिक आदेश और अधिसूचनाएं. ............................ [ भाग II—खण्ड-3—उप खण्ड (iii)—भारत सरकार के मंत्रालयोेंं (जिसमें रक्षा मंत्रालय भी शामिल है) और केन्द्रीय प्राधिकरणों (संघ शासित क्षेत्रों के प्रशासनों को छोड़कर) द्वारा जारी किए गए सामान्य सांविधिक नियमों और सांविधिक आदेशों (जिनमें सामान्य स्वरूप की उपविध्यिां भी शामिल हैं) के हिन्दी प्राधिकृत पाठ (ऐसे पाठों को छोड़कर जो भारत के राजपत्र के खण्ड 3 या खण्ड 4 में प्रकाशित होते हैं). .................................................... * भाग II—खण्ड-4—रक्षा मंत्रालय द्वारा जारी किए गए सांविधिक नियम और आदेश. ...................................... * भाग III—खण्ड-1—उच्च न्यायालयों, नियंत्रक और महालेखापरीक्षक, संघ लोक सेवा आयोग, रेल विभाग और भारत सरकार से सम्बद्ध और अधीनस्थ कार्यालयों द्वारा जारी की गई अध्सिूचनाएं. .............................................. 1017 भाग III—खण्ड-2—पेटेंट कार्यालय द्वारा जारी की गई पेटेन्टों और डिजाइनों से सम्बन्धित अधिसूचनाएं और नोटिस [ भाग III—खण्ड-3—मुख्य आयुक्तों के प्राधिकार के अधीन अथवा द्वारा जारी की गई अध्सिूचनाएं. ....... [ भाग III—खण्ड-4—विविध अधिसूचनाएं जिनमें सांविधिक निकायों द्वारा जारी की गई अधिसूचनाएं, आदेश, विज्ञापन और नोटिस शामिल हैं. ................................ 303 भाग IV—गैर-सरकारी व्यक्तियों और गैर-सरकारी निकायों द्वारा जारी किए गए विज्ञापन और नोटिस. .... 1149 भाग V—अंग्रेजी और हिन्दी दोनों में जन्म और मृत्यु के आंकड़ों को दर्शाने वाला सम्पूरक. ........................... [

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CONTENTS

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491 PART I—SECTION 1—Notifications relating to Non- Statutory Rules, Regulations, Orders and Resolutions issued by the Ministries of the Government of India (other than the Ministry of Defence) and by the Supreme Court .........................................................

641 PART I—SECTION 2—Notifications regarding Appointments, Promotions, Leave etc. of Government Officers issued by the Ministries of the Government of India (other than the Ministry of Defence) and by the Supreme Court ...............................

7 PART I—SECTION 3—Notifications relating to Resolutions and Non-Statutory Orders issued by the Ministry of Defence....................................... PART I—SECTION 4—Notifications regarding Appointments, Promotions, Leave etc. of Government Officers issued by the Ministry

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* of Defence ................................................ PART II—SECTION 1—Acts, Ordinances and Regulations PART II—SECTION 1A—Authoritative texts in Hindi language, of Acts, Ordinances and Regulations ............................................... *

PART II—SECTION 2—Bills and Reports of the Select

* Committee on Bills ................................... PART II—SECTION 3—SUB-SECTION (i)—General Statutory Rules (including Orders, Bye- laws, etc. of general character) issued by the Ministry of the Government of India (other than the Ministry of Defence) and by the

* Central Authorities (other than the Administration of Union Territories) ........ PART II—SECTION 3—SUB-SECTION (ii)—Statutory Orders and Notifications issued by the Ministries of the Government of India (other than the Ministry of Defence) and

*Folios not received.

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by the Central Authorities (other than the Administration of Union Territories) ..... *

PART II—SECTION 3—SUB-SECTION (iii)—Authoritative texts in Hindi (other than such texts, published in Section 3 or Section 4 of the Gazette of India) of General Statutory Rules & Statutory Orders (including Bye-laws of a general character) issued by the

Ministries of the Government of India (including the Ministry of Defence) and by Central Authorities (other than Administration of Union Territories) .........

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PART II—SECTION 4—Statutory Rules and Orders issued by the Ministry of Defence ........... *

PART III—SECTION 1—Notifications issued by the High Courts, the Comptroller and Auditor General, Union Public Service Commission, the Indian Government Railways and by

1017 Attached and Subordinate Offices of the Government of India .................................

PART III—SECTION 2—Notifications and Notices issued by the Patent Office, relating to Patents and Designs ............................................. *

PART III—SECTION 3—Notifications issued by or under the authority of Chief Commissioners ...... *

303 PART III—SECTION 4—Miscellaneous Notifications including Notifications, Orders, Advertisements and Notices issued by Statutory Bodies .......................................

1149 PART IV—Advertisements and Notices issued by Private Individuals and Private Bodies .................

PART V—Supplement showing Statistics of Births and

Deaths etc. both in English and Hindi ......

*493 भारत का राजपत्र, अक्तूबर 3, 2020 (आश्विन 11, 1942) [भाग I—खण्ड 1 भाग 1—खण्ड 1 [PART I—SECTION 1]

[(रक्षा मंत्रालय को छोड़कर) भारत सरकार के मंत्रालयों और उच्चतम न्यायालय द्वारा जारी की

गई विध्तिर नियमों, विनियमों, आदेशों तथा संकल्पों से संबंधित अधिसूचनाएं]

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PRESIDENT'SSECRETARIAT

New Delhi, the 26th January 2020

No.49-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the 1st Bar to Police Medal for Gallantryto the under mentioned officers of Bihar Police:—

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 7th march, 2017 an intelligence input came to the CRPF Cobra Camp Gaya District, Bihar that Zonal Commander of Naxal outfit Aniljee@Deepak was seen along with some other dreaded outfits near vill. Nawadih, ParoriatariBaskatwa and Thamkola area surrounded by dense forest area at the border of Gaya and Nawada district. This information was verified and after confirmation the Commandant, 205 Cobra batalian camp Gaya and Senior SP Gaya have discussed and planned to raid for their arrest.

Two teams no 7 & no 9 of Cobra battalion camp Gaya have been formed under the leadership of Sri DilipMallick Dy. Commandant and Sri Divesh Mishra Asstt. Commandant. Two civil police officers namely Asstt. Sub-Inspector Sri Vivek Kumar and Sri Surendra Ram Asst. Sub-Inspector both from Police line Gaya were deployed by Senior SP, Gaya to accompany each team of Para Military forces as these civil police officers were acquainted with the topography of the assemblage area which was on a hilly and dense forest area.

The above raiding party decided to reach the place by train as it was very difficult to reach the area which was surrounded by dense forest, rocky boulders and dense vegetation. The team boarded train at Gaya railway station in midnight and got down much before the probable assemblage area near Baskatwa. Although the area was almost inaccessible due to heavy vegetation and rocky boulders but any how the raiding party moved towards village Thamkola and reached about 1.5 Km northwest to vill.-Thambkola&vill.-Paroriyatari. It was again traced and confirmed to the raiding party that the Zonal commander Anil Jee @ Deepak along with other outfits were camping on a hillock nearby.

Now it was decided to cordon the outfits with tactical strategy. Two search teams and two cordon teams were formed. Out of two Search teams, one was headed by Asstt. Commandant Sri Divesh Mishra and accompanied by ASI Vivek Kumar civil police officer from Gaya police line and members of CPMF team no.-7, SI Abhay Sharma, Hav. Channeil Singh, constable Pawan Kumar Constable Balvinder Singh constable Vinod Kr. Choudhry, constable Dilip Kumar, constable Anup Kr. & constable Mahendra Kumar. Second search team was formed under the command of Dy. Commandant DilipMallick with members of CPMF team no 9. Both the search teams , first under the leadership of Asstt. Commandant Divesh Mishra accompanied by ASI Vivek Kumar and another with Dy. Commandant DilipMallick advanced towards target followed by some of team members with SI Abhay Sharma. Two corden teams, one of CPMF team no 7 members and another of CPMF team 9 members were formed to corden of the area.

All moved towards the target in strategical manner and when the team reached closer to the outfits , who were there, opened fire towards the 1st search team of Asstt. Commandant Divesh Mishra and ASI Vivekkumar. Any how they took protection of big boulder stones there but life of the search team members were in danger as regular firing was coming towards them. The raiding party then shouted that they are policeman and asked to surrender themselves but it resulted heavy firing from the Naxals and shouted war cry "MaowadiJindabad". Commander of the search team lastly decided to respond to Naxal's fire to save their lives. Naxals started firing towards the second search team also who also responded by return fire. Cordon teams were at a rather safe position as they were one contour below and at a safe distance but life of both the search teams were in great danger. Members of both the search teams advanced slowly in crawling position simultaneously responding to the naxal's firing. The bullets fired by naxals were continuously hitting & reflecting with boulder stones which saved lives of the raiding police party. Some bullets even crossed closely near the police personals endangering their lives. After some time firing from the naxal stopped and then the police party tried to hear the movement of naxals but when assured themselves that naxals are not doing any activity, they proceeded towardstheir target and started searching them. They found four dead bodies lying there. Sophisticated arms and ammunitions, empty cartridges mobile phones Pithus etc. were found lying there. It was noticed that the other members of naxal party escaped from that place due to police firing. The cordon team chased them up to a distance but densely forested area helped the Naxals to escape.

On the place of occurrence two Insas rifle, one AK-47 rifle, one SLR and its magazine, huge no of ammunitions, IEds , detonators, empty cartridges and other items which were left there by naxals have been recovered and seized. (copy of seizure list attached)

All the four dead bodies found there was later identified as 1.Anil Yadav@ Deepak 2.Chandan Yadav @ Nepali 3.Sukhari Choudhry @ Pramod@ Toofanijee 4.Arvind Verma @ Arvind Jee @ Lulha. All have previous criminal history and wanted in so many cases of Gaya &Nawada District.(List of cases attached).

A FIR regarding this incident has been registered with Sirdala Police station of Nawada District vide Sirdala PS case No. 47/17 dated 09.03.2017 u/s 147/148/149/333/332/337/324/342/307/379/ 411 IPC & 15/18/19 UAP Act 25(1- B)A/26/35/27 Arms Act has been registered.

In the whole incident, both the search teams have exhibited extra ordinary, consipicuous gallantry, courage and devotion to duty. Assistant Sub-Inspector of police Sri Vivek Kumar who is a civil Police officer and not trained as Para Military forces has also shown equivalent courage even when his life was in grave danger. His devotion and gallant work needs appreciation and recognition.

In this operation Shri Vivek Kumar, ASI displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 08/03/2017.

(No. 11020/102/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No.50-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/ 1st Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Bihar Police:

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

Under the leadership of SI Amrendra Kishore a team of STF Officers including SIs Devrajlndra, Santosh Kumar and Baijnath Kumar, was constituted to arrest RanjitMahto alias Ranjit Don, a dreaded criminal of Madhubani district who was a long time fugitive from court custody and carried a reward of Rs.50,000. He was the main accused in 20 criminal cases including cases of murders, loot, dacoit and extortion of money. In course of collection of intelligence about his movements and criminal activities it was gathered that he along with his gang members were staying in laynagar and plan a heinous crime.

The STF Team arrived on 15.5.2017 in Madhubani. A strategic plan to arrest Ranjit Don was prepared under the directions of SP Madhubani in unison with his District Police Team. On 16.05.2017 in pursuance of a secret information about the place where his gang members were to join him, the raiding police party in two teams left at about 1.10 hrs in night for the targeted village, Gobrahi. As per decided plan the Strike Team, consisting of SIP Officers, SlsAmrendra Kishore, DevrajIndra, Santosh Kumar and Baijnath Kumar with StsRupakRanjan Singh and Pankaj Anand, Madhubani OPE, in order to maintain complete secrecy of operation, moved on foot towards Gobrahi village leaving the police vehicle near village Dullipatti. After a march for 30-35 minutes the team neared the Gobrahi brick house. Acting according to plan SIs 2Anrendra Kishore and BaijnathKtunar moved forward cautiously in crawling position deputing Sls Santosh Kr. Singh and DevrajIndra to the nearby old brick house with a view to cordon the gang members in L shape. As SI Amrendra and Baijnath Kumar with Pankaj Anancl and RupakRanjan Singh neared the reported hiding place of the criminals, they, in the available moonlight, saw a motorcycle standing in Cront of a brick house compound. SI Amrendra, leader of the Strike Team, introducing themselves as police officers gave out a call. After a silence for 20-25 seconds, a sudden burst of fire began to come from the home. The police team, taking their positions against the field ridge called to them to surrender. The criminals, siiowi rig no respect for the police defiantly and intentionally continued firing rapid series of shots. Since the firing was coming directly towards the strike team, it made the situation grave and forced the police officers to open retaliatory lire in self defence. In the meantime SIs Santosh Kumar and DevrajIndra leaving their rear position joined the strike team SIs Bafinath Kumar and RupakRanjan Singh,ignoring the fact that criminal's bullets might hit them, moved from east to north in crawli ngPART I—SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 613 I¹⁰⁵ition on rough and rugged land of the brick house projectind shape position w ith a view us cordon the criminals and in order to block their escape routes. This exchange of fire continued for 20-25 minutes, in which the criminals fired indiscriminately whereas the members of Strike Team carried at controlled and accurate firing. At about 4.45 hrs. in the morning the place of occurrence was searched. A dead body with a country made carbine, having a magazine with 5 live cartridges of 9 mm in his right hand, was found lying beside a raised platform in the compound of the brick house. A regular carbine with a carbinewith a magazineloaded with 5 live cartridges of 9 mm was recovered at about 06 metre west from the deceased body. A number of live and empty cartridges were recovered nom the P.O. Recoveries of a big volume of firearms and ether artiel CS Ct, ci h riled the presence of more than one criminal involved in the firing on the police team along with the deceased, however they managed to escape under the cover of firing.

The deceased was identified as Ranjit Don alias RanjitMahto, a criminal recently his gangsters had committed the broad daylight murder of one NandYuclay, a brick trader, in Jaynagar market. The public, particularly traders and businessmen a laynagar heaved a sigh of relief and bestowed high encomiums to the braver. and steadfastness of the police party.

In this joint operation the nominees displayed indomitable courage, commendable patience and sincere commitment to perform the task they were assigned. SI Amrendra Kishore, leading the team in an ingenious manner plannedand executed a meticulous plan to neutralize one of the criminals, their Colleagues SlsBaijnath Kumar, Santosh Kr. Singh, DevrajIndru Pankaj Anandand RupakRanjan Singh showed great valour in the execution of the plan. Thisoperation led to the injur y of SlsAmrendra Kishore, DevrajIndra, Baijnath Kumar and Santosh Kumar Singh but following the plan strictly took positive course of action targeting their despite despite all odds like inadequate force, poor light and late arrival of back up team resulting in the death of a very tough, unyielding and diabolic crime thriller, Ranjit Don, and recovery of sophisticated weapons.

In this operation S/Shri Amrendra Kishore, SI, Baijnath Kumar, SI, DevrajIndra, SI, Santosh Kumar Singh, SI, RupakRanjan Singh, SI andPankaj Anand, SI displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 17/05/2017.

(F. No.11020/175/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No.51-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/1st Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Chhattisgarh Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

Bijapur Police has undertaken two joint operations in the northern part of the district that borders Maharashtra (National Park Area Committee of the Maoists) with Maharashtra Police in the month of January 2016 and achieved success in neutralizing a Platoon Commander rank Maoist and a Militia Member. The recoveries included an INSAS rifle, muzzle loading gun, detonators etc among other things. Another joint operation was launched at short notice in the month of February on the basis of confidential interrogation of a surrendered cadre of Divisional Committee Member (DVC) rank, in Telangana. He was aware of the events that took place in the earlier operations. The interrogation was done by Mr. KalyanElesela, Addl SP Operations, Bijapur and Mr Santosh Kumar Singh, Addl SP Operations, Sukma on 10th February 2016 and a decision was taken to launch an operation at the earlier, targeting the forests surrounding the villages Ondri, Gundepuri, Rengawaya, Gartul, Edapalli and Sendra.

The operation plan was prepared by Shri I. K. Elesela, IPS, Addl. SP Operations, Bijapur and forwarded to Shri ManjunathSinghe, IPS, Addl SP Gadchiroli for information and necessary cooperation.

A total of 76 men from District Reserve Guards (DRG), Bijapur led by Shri KalyanElesela left in the afternoon of11th February 2016 and alighted near the PS Bedre and moved towards the target area. Owing to the early sunset and absence of moonlight the parties took an early LUP in the hills near Rengawaya village. The parties moved ahead tactically and carried out search operations in the surrounding villages. The team was divided into three groups commanded by Shri KalyanElesela Addl. SP Operations, Abdul Sameer, Inspector and Ramakant Tiwari Inspector.

The police parties moved in the early hours of 12th February towards the target area. As the police parties reached the forests and a small stream (Gundepurinala) around 1045 hrs, there was a sudden outburst of fire at the party on the right flank led by Inspector Ramakant Tiwari. The other two parties, in the centre and on the left, rushed for rescue while maintaining cover and fired at the Maoists who appeared to be in two or three groups. There was unabated exchange of fire between the Maoists and security forces for the next thirty to thirty five minutes.

The party led by Inspector Ramakant Tiwari assisted by ASI Santosh Baghel and Constable Dinesh Khande held firm during the exchange of fire and retaliated bravely. Meanwhile, the party in the centre commanded by Addl. S.P. KalyanElesela assisted by Constable Lubendra Pujari launched counter attack which lead the maoist leave the ground and flee towards the hills.However, he pressed forward, assisted by ASI -Santosh Baghel to pursue the Maoists despite grave threat to life. He was ably assisted by Inspector Abdul Sameer and who provided fire cover to the party moving ahead. The exchange of fire continued while in pursuit. Learning from the mistakes of the past operations, KalyanElesela Addl. S.P. pressed his men to follow the blood trail left by the Maoists. The persistence paid off as the body of One Maoist was recovered quite far from thefirst exchange of fire. After ensuring that the firing ceased on both sides, a search was undertaken in the area of operation. It resulted in recovery of two more bodies of Maoists, (totalthree, one 303 rifle, two 315 rifle, three muzzle loading guns, live rounds of SLR, AK47 etc. It also yielded pittus, daily use items, batteries, wire, books etc of Maoists, None of the security personnel were injured in the exchange of fire.

Owing to the long distances to be covered to reach the nearest Police station in Bijapur district, it was decided to press forward and move towards Maharashtra border. Since the exchange of fire has exposed police presence, the team was divided into groups instead of three. One group led by Abdul Sameer Inspector left towards village Gartul and Carried all the recoveries, the other group led by Mr. KalyanElesela Addl. SP and assisted by Inspector Ramakant Tiwari, Constable Dinesh Khandey and Lubendra Pujari move towards the south of the site of encounter and embarked on the long route to avoid ambush by the Maoists. The parties took LUP at different places on the night of 12th February and moved toward PS Damrancha on the Maharashtra border in the early hours of 13th February 2016. PS Damrancha was informed about the encounter and they have marched towards the route to be taken by the Bijapur Police to provide corridor protection. The teams safely crossed the Indravati River under the protection of teams from Maharashtra Police and reached PS Damrancha. All the team members moved back to Bijapur by MI-17 helicopter which were timely made available by the Indian Air Force.

The dead Maoists were later identified as PalloSukku, Commander, Area Action Team, Kumma Soma, Member, Militia and Sukhram, Member Militia Platoon." The operation was successful owing to the exceptional courage shown by the Bijapur Police team. The men have hazarded their lives in national interest and successfully neutralized three Maoists whose bodies were recovered. The site of encounter had sufficient evidence to indicate that many more were injured and probably died later.

Shri KalyanElesela, anticipating grave danger for the men that come under the killing zone at first, showed exceptional courage and presence of mind in marshalling his men and launched a counter offensive. His leadership by example and audacious response indire consequences and resulted in achieving success without suffering any loss of life or material. His tactics of splitting the parties near the target area and merging them post firing; embarking on different routes to prevent backlash by the Maoists is commendable. His favorable rapport with the border states of Telangana and Maharashtra proved highly productive. This operation is an example of joint action with Telangana aiding in procuring the inputs and Maharashtra coming in support when the troops from Chhattisgarh (Bijapur Police), were in distress. His initiative in inter-State operation and painstaking efforts in eliciting cooperation from bordering States is a testimony of his professionalism.

In this operation S/Shri Indira KalyanElesela, IPS, Addl. SP,Ramakant Tiwari, Insp., Santosh Baghel, ASI,LubendraPujari, CT andDineshKhandey,CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 12/02/2016.

(No. 11020/33/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special DutyPART I—SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 615 No. 52-Pres/2020 — The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/Police Medal for Gallantry (Posthumously)/1stBar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Chhattisgarh Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

Based on the intelligence input about presence of a large group of armed naxalites meeting in Becha area. On 17.11.2016, he along with his troops was sent on a search operation from village Barsoor, District Dantewada. During that search operation on 18.11.2016 at around 14.45 hrs. Inspector Raman Usendi along with his men of DRG Narayanpur had to face indiscriminate firing from the PLGA cadres of coy no. 06 of Maoist near the hills south east of village Becha, Police Station Chhotedongar District Narayanpur the Maoist were firing from Automatic and Semi Automatic weapons with an intention to harm the security forces and loot their weapons. The security forces disclosed their identity and warned the armed naxalites to stop firing and surrender. The armed naxalites ignored the warning and continued to indiscriminately fire upon the security forces. Inspector Raman Usendi and Sub Inspector Vinod Singh Kaushik like a determined and true leader, directed his troops to open retaliatory firing while advancing with proper co-ordination of caution and aggression.

Sensing this, Inspector Raman Usendi, Sub Inspector Vinod Singh Kaushik and Asst. Sub Inspector Ramesh Sori along with DRG team started moving forward by crawling while the bullets were being fired over them. The exchange of Fire continued for about one hour and then ultimately the Naxalites fled away in the jungles. On searching the area, police party recovered 03 Female and 02 Male naxalites dead body, 03 Nos 12 Bore rifle, 01 Nos 315 bore rifle, 42 Nos 12 bore live round and 03 Nos fired ammunition, 17 Nos 315 bore rifle live round and 04 Nos fired ammunition, 04 Nos Naxal pouch, Naxal literatures etc was recovered.

It is worth mentioning that Sub Inspector Shri Vinod Singh Kaushik displayed exemplary valour, grit and determination during an encounter with Maoists on 24.01.2018 but lost his life in the line of duty.

In this operation S/Shri Raman Usendi, Insp., Ramesh Kumar Sori, ASI and Late Shri Vinod Singh Kaushik SI (Posthu) displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 18/11/2016.

(No.11020/95/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 53-Pres/2020- The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Delhi Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 07.07.2017, Dr. Srikanth Goud of Metro Hospital, PreetVihar, Delhi was reported "Missing" at P.S. PreetVihar. It was reported that he booked an OLA cab for going to his house in Gautam Nagar, Delhi in the night of 06.07.2017 from PreetVihar Metro Station and an FIR No. 168/17 was registered. Subsequently, a complaint from OLA company was also received which disclosed that driver of one OLA Cab No. DL-1R-TC-1611 had kidnapped one passenger and the driver was616 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 demanding a ransom of Rs.05 Crores for releasing the passenger. On the basis of the two reports/information, it was established that Dr. Srikanth Goud was kidnapped for ransom by the alleged OLA Cab driver and his associates.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the kidnappers were operating/making ransom calls from different locations of Western U.P. and Uttarakhand. Accordingly, several teams were constituted. Sh. Omvir Singh, IPS, the then DCP/East District, Delhi assisted by Dr. Hemant Tiwari, IPS and Inspr. Manish Joshi was designated as incharge of the team for attending the phone calls of the ransom callers for negotiating the safe release of the victim. The team under, the leadership of Sh. Omvir Singh, IPS was dispatched to Western U.P.

On 19.07.2017, a specific input was received about the location of abductors and the victim in Shatabdi Nagar, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh. Instantly, various teams were dispatched including the team led by Sh. Omvir Singh, IPS, assited by Dr. Hemant Tiwari, IPS and Inspr. (Exe.) Manish Joshi. The house of the suspects was cordoned off and the inmates were warned to come out. Sh. Omvir Singh, IPS, the then DCP/East District, Delhi and his team positioned themselves at the entry gate of the room, where the victim was kept under confinement. The abductors were asked to open the gate and surrender before the police team but they didn't heed to the command. So, Sh. Omvir Singh ordered to break open the door. The police team deployed forced open the door. The abductors, while coming out of the house, however, opened the fire on the police team and Sh. Omvir Singh, IPS and the police team narrowly escaped from the bullet. In this exchange of fire, one of the kidnappers/harbourers sustained bullet injury fired by Sh. Hemant Tiwari, without caring of his life. In the scuffle, Sh. Omvir Singh and Inspr. (Exe.) Manish Joshi, without caring for their life managed to rescue the kidnapped victim Dr. Srikanth Goud and took him to the safe location. Thereafter, four accused persons, including the injured one, were arrested from the spot in a smooth operation led by Sh. Omvir Singh, IPS.

The entire operation was carried out with exemplary zeal, dedication and highest level of professionalism. In the prevailing challenging situation, Sh. Omvir Singh, IPS, the then DCP/East D&rict, Delhi (leader of the police team), Dr. Hemant Tiwari, IPS (the then ACP/PreetVihar) and Inspr. (Exe.) Manish Joshi (the then SHO/MadhuVihar) did not care for their life and displayed resolute courage, great valour and gallant spirit. Their brave efforts resulted not only in the successful rescue of abducted Dr. Srikanth Goud, the officer's inspirational leadership during tense encounter ensured that no unpleasant incident took place in the hostile zone which could have incurred heavy casualties and also endangered the life of the kidnapped victim.

In this operation S/Shri Omvir Singh, IPS, DCP, Dr. Hemant Tiwari, IPS, ACP andManishJoshi, Insp. displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are m ade for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 19/07/2017.

(No. 11020/01/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No.54-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/1st Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Delhi Police:—

S/Shri

The Special Cell of Delhi Police was working on desperate, interstate rewarded, wanted and elusive gangster of Uttar Pradesh namely Sahun S/o Rehman r/o Village Bishambra, PS Shergarh, Mathura (UP). He was hotly wanted in 7 states across India. Delhi Police had announced a cash reward of Rs 2 lakh on the arrest of above said accused Sahun. He is reportedly carrying reward from UP, Haryana, Rajasthan and MP police.

He is involved in fierce encounter with different state police around 5 times but everytime managed to give a slip. He is master con who has mastered the art of escape from armed police custody and escaped on three occasion from UP and MP.

In the early hours of 8/11/2017, acting upon the input accused Sahun was spotted at KalindiKunj Chowk, Delhi. When the team tried to apprehend him Sahun opened fire upon the advancing police team. Inspr. UmeshBarthwal, SI Mukesh Singh conspicuously displayed exemplary valour and put their lives to risk, crawled and made their way near firing desperado. Insp UmeshBarthwal and SI Mukesh were at the forefront and faced the maximum risk, however they made theirPART I—SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 617 way while facing indiscriminate firing while having no cover. They managed to overpower the gangster and in the ensuing shootout Insp UmeshBarthwal and SI Mukesh Singh fired 3 rounds each from their 9 MM pistols.

One 7.65 bore US made pistol alongwith 5 live cartridges were recovered from his possession and fired 4 rounds upon the police party. One double barrel gun of 315 bore with 10 live cartridges of even bore was also recovered at his instance.

The brave action and gallant act won applause not only from the highest ranks of Police of different states & media, but also from the public at large. They have set an example of gallantry & commitment towards their duty.

In this operation S/Shri UmeshBarthwal, Insp. andMukesh Singh, SI displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 08/11/2017.

(No. 11020/98/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 55-Pres/2020 — The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Delhi Police:—

S/Shri

An information was received on intervening night of 21/22 Nov'18 about the movement of terrorists in Kashmir, immediately a team comprising of Insp Sunil Kumar, SI Yashpal Singh, ASI Gulab& others were dispatched to Srinagar to act upon the information. After reaching Srinagar, the information was further developed in hostile environment. It was learnt that ISIS have been strengthening their unit at J&K for extending terrorism activities in Delhi. All the inputs gathered from various sources was analyzed under the supervision of DCP, Spl.

Cell and decision for initiating immediate operation was taken with approval of Senior Officers of Spl Cell, Delhi Police. On corroboration, co-relation of various inputs and reconnaissance of possible hideouts, the specific information was further shared with Police Component, Kashmir on 24.11.18. As per the specifics of the input, immediately a special Naka was setup in the heart of Srinagar near Tourism Reception Center. TRC is one of the most populated area of Srinagar and is also frequented by foreign tourists and more so, during afternoon hours.

During checking of vehicles, one motorcyclist carrying two pillion riders bearing regn. No. JK01AB5154 was spotted by Insp Sunil Kumar, SI Yashpal& ASI Gulab and all other team was alerted. The motorcyclist jumped the naka and one of the pillion rider tried to lob grenade at the police party comprising of PC Srinagar & local Police team of PS Kothibagh. Realizing the gravity of the situation, Inspector Sunil Kumar, SI Yashpal Singh & ASI Gulab, who were stationed at the inner cordon, showed tremendous presence of mind, exceptional courage and without caring for their lives, pounce on the terrorists. As soon as one of the dreaded terrorist HarisMustaq was trying to open the safety pin with the motive to blast it, immediately Insp Sunil Kumar overpowered him and in the meantime SI Yashpal grabbed his hands tightly which restrained the terrorist from removing the safety pin from the grenade, during grappled, the grenade fell down but did not detonate as the safety pin was intact. One more grenade and fully loaded pistol were grabbed from him. This point of instant was highly risky. At the same time, ASI Gulab and others overpowered Tahir Ahmad Khan, another dreaded militant and snatched the grenade and one loaded pistol from his possession before he could make any harmful act. The third militant namely Asif Suhail who was riding the motorcycle was also caught during the operation. This timely intervention saved innumerable lives at the crowded TRC, Srinagar which was overcrowded with foreign tourists.

A case vide FIR No. 93/2018 was registered at PS Kothibagh, Srinagar under section 307 Ranbir Penal Code, 7/25 IA Act, 16(B), 18 ULA(P) Act in this regard.

The active militants came with three grenades and two loaded sophisticated pistols on a bike. The swiftness of Police team in identification of militants averted a grenade blast in the heart of Srinagar and it also resulted into the apprehension of three hardcore terrorists of Islamic State of J&K (ISJK) namely (i) Hans Mushtaq Khan, (ii) Tahir Ahmad Khan and (iii) Asif Sohail. Apprehension of three active terrorists in Srinagar is a gallant effort and it resulted in to collection of plethora of information. During sustained interrogations, lots of valuable information was extracted and raids were conducted at over a dozen hideouts of this module and in the continuing operation, six more terrorists of ISJK were arrested in this case. Due to the importance of the case NIA took over the investigation of this case.

In this operation S/Shri SunilKumar, Insp.,Yashpal Singh, SIandGulab Singh, ASI displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 24/11/2018.

(No. 11020/87/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 56-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Delhi Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 26/04/2018, three bike borne armed robbers waylaid a cash van of SIS Prosegur Company near DSIDC Vardhman Mall, Narela, Delhi. Robbers fired about 30 rounds on cashier and gunman of the cash van and shot them dead in full public view. After shooting the duo dead, they decamped with Rs. 12 lakhs. A case vide FIR No. 306/18 u/s 394/397/302/34 IPC & 25/27 Arms Act was registered at PS Narela in this regard. The sensational killing caused huge uproar in public at large. Incident made headlines in print as well as electronic media. Several other similar incidents were also reported in outer Delhi and adjoining area of Haryana. Analyses of the modus operandi of the gang reflected that the members of the gang were in the habit of shooting indiscriminately at the custodians of cash may it be security guards/gunmen's or the employees. First they would shoot at the security guards/gunmen's to create terror in their minds and thereafter they would rob/loot the cash. They would open indiscriminate fires at the custodians and even towards the general public so as no one would dare to apprehend or chase them.

A team of Special Cell led by Inspector Sanjeev Kumar and Inspector PooranChand Yadav worked hard in tandem, deployed sources and also mounted technical surveillance to arrest the perpetrators of the sensational crime. The perseverance of the team bore fruits on01/05/2018, when an information that the accused involved in robbery cum murder have gone to Haridwar and would be returning back was received.

On 01/05/2018, a trap was laid and gang members namely 1. Mahabir s/o Sh. KanchiLal r/o K-143 Ghogha Dairy, Narela, Delhi, 2. Deepak @ Mantar s/o Sh. Jawar Singh R/o Village Ranapur, Distt. Bulandshahr, UP and 3. Gurcharan s/o Sh. Vedpal r/o H. No. 152, Gali No.1, Prem Colony, Narela were apprehendedfrom near Shahbad Road, Sector-26, Rohini with arms and ammunition. A case vide FIR No. 51/18, u/s 25/54/59 Arms Act, PS Special Cell was registered in this regard and the interrogation of accused persons revealed that the crime of robbery cum double murder of Narela area was committed by Bharat Bhushan @ Tony along with his associates Deepak @ Mantra, Jitu and Vikas all r/o Narela, Delhi. One .32 bore pistol, which was used in robbery cum double murder case, and cash Rs. 3 Lakhs, was recovered from accused Deepak.

Accordingly raids were conducted to nab gang leader Bharat Bhushan @ Tony and his associates Jitu and Vikas. Accused Vikas s/o Harish r/o H. No. 409, Dada Mai Wali Colony, Bankner, Narela was apprehended from Pocket- 5A, Narela. One .32 bore pistol, which was used in crime of PS Narela, was recovered at his instance. Apart from this, robbed cash of Rs 1.9 lakh, his share, was also recovered from him. Accused Bhushan @ Tony and Jitu remained still at large. Accused Bharat Bhushan @ Tony was a notorious history sheeter of PS Narela. To douse the police he rented out his own house to his associate Deepak and he himself was running a dairy at Ghogha Dairy area for namesake but he was very much active and was indulging in spate of armed robberies in outer Delhi and neighbouring area of Haryana with his associates.

On 02.05.2018, another information was received that accused Bharat Bhushan @Tony would be visiting his associates near Khair Village Canal in EECO Car No. DL-3CCF-2417 in the wee hours. Going by the modous operandi of accused it was obvious that he would be having sophisticated weapon and would definitely open fire on the police team in case he is trapped. The police team deputed for the operation was briefed accordingly and the team was asked to put on all safety measures including bullet proof jackets. The team was given specific directions that in case of firing by the gangster minimum force would be used and no one would fire aiming at the gangster as his apprehension was very important as this could open several cases of armed robberies and murders. On the basis of this information, a trap was laid down. At about 5:20 AM one.

Eeco car as above was spotted coming from PrahladPur side. The car was signalled to stop but the car driver accelerated. Inspr. Sanjeev Kumar who was at the forefront of the vehicle warned the driver to stop but he did not pay heed and continued to drive dangerously in haphazard manner. He nearly mowed down lnsp Sanjeev Kumar who escaped narrowly. Sensing the urgency Inspr. Sanjeev Kumar aimed at the tyre of the van and flattened it. Driver lost the control over the van and rammed it into the footpath. The driver, Bharat Bhushan got out with a bag in one hand and sophisticated pistol in other hand. Insp. Pooran Chand Yadav again warned Bharat Bhushan to stop and surrender but he started firing at the police team with the intention to kill and in a bid to escape. Both the inspectors escaped narrowly. Even after knowing well that the gangster would fire again, Inspr. Pooran Chand Yadav and Insp. Sanjeev Kumar without caring for their lives chased the gangster & Insp. Pooran Chand Yadav fired twice in air to deter Bharat Bhushan @ Tony from escaping. As expected, the gangster again fired in retaliation and two bulletshit the bullet proof jacket of a Constable. Finally accused was shot in leg and he was apprehended after scuffle. One .32 bore pistol with two live cartridges one spare magazine with five live cartridges and cash of Rs. 3.3 lakhswas recovered from his bag. He was immediately shifted to hospital. A Casevide FIR No. 53/18 u/s 186/353/307 IPC & 25/27/54/59 Arms Act, PS Special Cell was registered in this regard and after treatment in hospital, accused Bharat Bhushan @ Tony s/o Late Shri Jaipal r/o Gali No. 01, Prem Colony, Narela, Delhi was arrested in the case.

The brave and gallant action of lnspr. Sanjeev Kumar and lnspr. Pooran Chand Yadav of Delhi Police won applause not only from the highest ranks of Police of different States & Media, but also from the Public at large. Arrest of these criminals was a need of the hour as the accused persons were involved in a spate of armed robberies by killing or injuring the custodians of cash which had created a havoc and sense of terror in Delhi. Impact of these armed robberies wherein several persons were killed was such on the agencies involved in collection of cash or in replenishing cash in ATMs have begun to refuse to go in some areas. Both the officers set an example of gallantry & dedication towards their duty by taking the operation as a challenge. During the whole operation, they were having no cover for their safety and were directly in the firing line of desperate criminal. They closely faced the volley of bullets fired by the dreaded criminal. Undeterred and unfazed, they put their life at risk and bravely confronted the criminals and showed extra ordinary courage, devotion & dedication towards their duties, exemplary professionalism, intelligence, application & presence of mind and rare gallant act in apprehending the desperate criminals. They played crucial role in apprehension of above desperate criminals and solving of number of cases including the sensational double murder cum cash van robbery case and have given a sense of safety and security amongst the citizens of Delhi and adjoining area of Haryana, so they need to be rewarded.

In this operation S/Shri Pooran Chandra Yadav, Insp. and Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, Insp. displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 02/05/2018.

(No. 11020/100/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty620 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 No.57-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Delhi Police:—

S/Shri

On 20/01/18, on the basis of a specific information team of Special Cell laid a trap in Gazipur area of Delhi. At about 08:07 PM, a white color Santro car No. UP 21 CA 7164, in which two persons were seated, was spotted. The informer identified the co-passenger in the car as Abdul Rehman @ Abdul Subhan @ Tauqeer. Vehicles of Police team tried to intercept the Santro car but they sped away towards Khoda Colony, UP. Finally, after a chase, the team in Govt. Gypsy, led by DCP Pramod Singh Kushwah, blocked the way of Santro car. ACP Govind Sharma, Inspr. AmulTyagi and staff also reached there. The occupants of the car were loudly warned to surrender by the DCP after disclosing their identity. Instead of surrendering, Abdul Subhan Qureshi Tauqeer, fired two rounds at the police party. One of the bullet hit the bullet proof jacket of DCP Pramod Singh Kushwah and another narrowly missed ACP Govind Sharma. Undeterred, DCP Pramod Singh Kushwah and ACP Govind Sharma closed in on the terrorist, who again fired two rounds but both the police officers overpowered him after a scuffle. The DCP and the ACP also fired two rounds each in self-defense. The driver of the car, Mohd. Aziz, also fired aiming towards police party. One bullet fired by him hit the bullet proof jacket of Inspr. AmulTyagi, who still kept on following the miscreant. The Inspector also fired two rounds in self-defense. However, taking advantage of thick plantation, darkness and open ground, Mohd. Aziz managed to escape. One pistol "SMITH and WESSON SPRINGFIELD MA USA SW9VE" loaded with five live cartridges was recovered from the possession of accused Abdul Subhan Qureshi Tauqeer. Subsequently, a case vide FIR No. 8/18 dt 20.01.18 u/s 186/353/307/34 IPC r/w 25/27 Arms Act P.S. Special Cell was registered against them on the complaint of Inspr. AmulTyagi.

In this operation S/Shri Pramod Singh Kushwah, IPS, DCP and AmulTyagi, Insp. displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 20/01/2018.

(No. 11020/171/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 58-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

In the wee hours of 24/10/2016 a specific input was generated regarding presence of a terrorist in village SiverKawari of WarnowLolab area. The input was further developed and shared with 18 RR. A joint operation was planned and launched by Kupwara Police and contingents of 18 RR under the close supervision of Sh. Arif Amin Shah ASP Kupwara, Sh. Sarfaraz Bashir DySP PC Lolab and I/C PP Khurhama. Area was cordoned off and Nakas were established at strategic locations. All buddy stops were plugged-off with proper deployments. 01 coy of CRPF 148thBn was also deployed in outer-cordon. Immediately two dedicated teams of Police officials/SPOs were constituted and one assigned the task to carry search operation while as another one was tasked to give cover protection to the search team. SI Ab. Rashid No. 125/PAU, HC Gh. Mohd. No.. 55/KP, SgCt. Mohd. Akbar No.

620/AP 7th , Ct lmran Khan No. 406/P, Ct SarjanYousuf No. 545/KP, Ct. Noor ul Almas No. 868/KP, SPOs SPO Farooq Ahmad No. 36, Sarwar Hussain No. 677, Fayaz Ahmad No. 219,Maroof Bashir No. 93,Mohd.

Sultan No. 755, Mushtaq Ahmad No. 847, Naseer Ahmad No. 309 volunteered themselves to be part of search and cover teams. Search operation was started under the close supervision of operational officers present on the spot and was led by Addl. SP Kupwara. While carrying search of the suspected area, all of a sudden, the search team came under heavy fire from the terrorist who had taken shelter in the house of one Abdul AhadNajar adopted Son-in-Law of Mohd. Abdullah Najar R/O SiverKawari. The search team was enough vigilant and remained unharmed during the attack. Keeping in view the security of the house inmates, the fire was not retaliated and a meticulous strategy was chalked out to evacuate safely the house inmates. Following the directions of undersigned and other operational officer present on the spot, cover team engaged and confined the hidden terrorist in one side of the house with tactful retaliatory fire and search team led by ASP Kupwara which was now assigned the task to make safe evacuation of holed-up house inmates which they did successfully without any harm. Later the hidden terrorist was successfully engaged with heavy retaliatory fire and zeroed. Seeing his death close, he jumped from the said house in order to escape, but was instantly gunned-down in the compound of the said house. The role of Const. (Opr) Mohd. Ashraf No. 3025/PW was praiseworthy as he maintained communication between deployed forces aimed at better coordination which finally yielded desired results. After carrying further search of the area no further movement/presence of terrorist(s) was established and finally operation was called-off. Arms/ammunition have been recovered from the encounter site includes 01 AK-47 Rifle, 03 AK-47 Magazines, 85 Rounds of AK-47 and 01 I-Corn Wireless Set. Investigation conducted into the matter revealed that said eliminated terrorist was a foreigner and affiliated with LeT out-fit. He was identified as Saad @ Shahid A+ categorized terrorist. For the said incident, case FIR No. 137/2016 u/s 307 RPC, 7/27 I.A Act stands registered in Police Station Lalporaand further investigation is going on. During the whole operation, evacuation of holed-up house inmates and elimination of LeT dreaded terrorist in particular, role of ShSarfaraz Bashir, DySP KPS-125839, SgCt. Mohd. Akbar No. 620/AP 7th and Const. (Opr) Mohd. AshrafNo. 3025/PW remained praiseworthy who without caring for their lives fought a fierce gun-fight with the heavily armed terrorist from the font .

In this operations S/Shri Sarfaraz Bashir Ganai, Dy SP, Mohd Akbar Lone, SgCT and Mohd. Ashraf Lone, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 24/10/2016.

(No. 11020/118/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 59-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/ 1st Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 04-02-2017 at about 11:40 hours while acting on a specific intelligence input regarding movement/Presence of some HM terrorists in the general area of Naseem-Bagh Bye-Pass, Sopore who were in an attempt to move towards Srinagar to carry out some major strike upon the Police and security force, Sopore Police in collaboration with SOG Party Baramulla and 52-RR cordoned off the specific area of Naseem-Bagh, Bye-Pass Sopore and launched search operation, besides established some multiple NAKA's to neutralize the terrorists during622 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 which a NAKA Party consisting upon Shri Mashkoor Ahmad-KPS, HC Farooq Hussain 762/B, Ct. MohdYounis 743/Spr, Ct. lrshad Ahmad 668/Spr, Ct. Tawseef Ahmad 689/Spr, Constable Javaid Ahmad No. 706/IRP 13thBn, SPO Tariq Ahmad 422/SPO-Bdm, SPO MohdRafiq 68/SPO-Spr, SPO Reyaz Ahmad 226/SPO-Bla, SPO Ashak Hussain 1610/SPO-Bla led by Shri Shafkat Hussain-KPS SP (Ops) Baramulla, intercepted two terrorists and while being challenged the terrorists lobbed a hand grenade and fired upon the NAKA party resultantly Shri Shafkat Hussain No. 017356-KPS, SP (Ops) Baramulla, got injured. The officer despite being injured promptly defended his positions and moved his party by exhibiting highest degree of professionalism, valour and resilience towards the terrorists and retaliated the fire resultantly an open gun battle triggered. Since there was heavy traffic rush on the bypass road and large number of pedestrians were also walking from either sides of the road and the officer sensed that the terrorists may escape from the spot by taking advantage of traffic and civil movement, the officer alongwith his team without wasting any time starts approaching towards the terrorist backed by an another team of lnspr. Masrat Ahmad ARP-026108, Ct. Zaheer Ahmad 682/IR 6thm Ct. Irshad - Ahmad 395/IR 13thBn, Ct, Javeed Ahmad 684/B Ct. Bilal Ahmad 624/Spr, SPO Mohd Shah 502/SPO-Bdm, SPO Mohammad Zahid 141/SPO-Bla, SPO Aijaz Ahmad 295/SPO-Bla by giving covering/ backup firing. The terrorist who were two in number after seeing that the police party is advancing towards them, they (terrorists) as per their well strategy took two sides/directions. The Police Party led by Shri Shafkat Hussain-KPS SP (ops) Baramulla immediately stood in front of the terrorists by putting themselves in great risk and by showing extra-ordinary courage/professionalism fired volley of bullets upon the terrorist resultantly one terrorist got killed and in the meanwhile another terrorist has tried to escape from an opposite directions, another Police Party led by Insp. Masrat Ahmad No. ARP-026108 immediately engaged the said terrorist and in the gunfight 2nd terrorist also got killed in a brief encounter without any collateral damage. The slain terrorists were later on identified as Mohammad Azhar Khan @ Umar S/ONazir Ahmad Khan R/O TurchKeegamNatnoosaKupwara (category 'C') and Sajad Ahmad Lone @ Babar S/O Mohd Akbar R/O EdiporaBomaiSopore (category 'C') of HM outfit. Arms/ammunition were recovered from the possession of slain terrorists includes .01 AK 47 rifle (Short Gun), 01 AK 47 rifle (Damaged), 01 Pistol along with Magazine, 63 Rounds of AK-47, 07 Rounds of Pistol, 05 AK-47 Magazines, 02 PouchsChitra (one damaged) and 04 Hand Grenades. In this regard, case FIR No. 09/2017 U/S 307 RPC, 7/27 A. Actstands registered in P/S Tarzoo.

In this operation S/Shri Shafkat Hussain, Addl. SP, Mashkoor Ahmad, DySP, Bilal Ahmed Bhat, SgCT andJavaid Ahmad Fafoo, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 04/02/2017.

(No. 11020/119/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No.60-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/2nd BartoPolice Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

On specific information generated by Police Handwara regarding presence of terrorists in Khan MohallahHajinKralgund on 14-02-2017 a joint operation was planned and executed by Police Handwara, 30 RR at Hajin village and adjoining areas. The presence of terrorists was established and cordon around the hiding terrorists was further tightened. During the search operation heavy volume of fire opened by the hiding terrorists created a chaos among the resident civilians. A joint team Police & Army headed by SSP Handwara Shri Ghulam JeelaniWani- KPS augmented by SgCt Amir Hassan No.715/AP13th and Ct Javid Ahmad No.193/H volunteered themselves to take the responsibility of evacuating the civil population to safer place. Despite the risk involved they showed utter disregard to their personal safety, evacuated the civilians amidst volley of fire. After the safe evacuation of civilians on spot assault teams were constituted to eliminate the dreaded terrorists without any collateral damage. SSP Handwara Ghulam JeelaniWani-KPS, SgCt Amir Hassan and Ct Javid Ahmad again volunteered themselves for the task and marched towards hiding terrorist in various directions thus tightened cordon further and swiftly retaliated the terrorist attack. As the terrorists were heavily armed and highly trained, they started indiscriminate firing on thePART I—SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 623 assault teams and lobbed several grenades. During this fierce fire fight one army Major namely Satish Daya of 30 RR got seriously injured, the assault teams tactfully evacuated the injured officer who was shifted for medical treatment where he succumbed to his injuries. This abrupt assault of terrorists make the task more difficult for the assault teams to move forward. Recommendees SSP Handwara Ghulam JeelaniWani-KPS, SgCt Amir Hassan and Ct Javid Ahmad without caring for their own lives, showing nerve of steel marched towards dreaded terrorists in a fire retaliatory action and reached in close proximity of the hiding terrorists. The assault teams provided cover fire to them during the final assault upon the hiding terrorists resulting killing of three most wanted foreign terrorists of LeT outfit who were later identified as (01) Darda R/O PaK (02) Saad R/O PaK and (03) Mavia R/O PaK. During this joint anti militancy operation other participants of assault teams were provided/ recommended for OTP/Conversion and suitable reward as per their role played during the anti militancy operation.

However, in the entire operation SSP Handwara Ghulam JeelaniWani-KPS, SgCt Amir Hassan and Ct Javid Ahmad displayed matchless courage and selfless devotion to duty of highest order and ensured safe evacuation of the civilians. The exemplary initiatives exhibited by them resulted in successful culmination of the operation without any collateral damage.

In this operation S/Shri Gh. JeelaniWani, SSP,Amir Hassan lone, SgCT and Javid Ahmad Rather, SgCT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 14/02/2017.

(No.11020/120/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 61-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 15-08-2016 Police Baramulla received information through reliable source that 05 foreign terrorists have been sighted in the GodhathalMayi yan of P/S Bijhama. The input was further developed and shared with 17 JAK RIF. Acting upon the said information Police Baramulla proceeded towards the . said village along with 17 JAK RIF under the supervision of Addl. SP Baramulla. The operation team cordoned the area and Naka's were established at strategic locations. All buddy stops were plugged-off with proper deployment. 01 co of Army and some Police personnel and SPO were deployed in outer-cordon. Immediately two POs were constituted and one assigned the task to carry search operation while as another one was tasked to give cover protection to the search team. Shri Nissar Ahmad Dy SP (OPS) Baramulla, SI MohdMurtaza , ASI MohdSadeeq No. 39/B , HC Ajaz Ahmad No. 79/B(then 125/Spr), Sgct. MohdSaleem No.515/B, Sgct. Javeedlqbal No. 305/AP 5th Sgct. Parvaiz Ahmad No. 1336/B, Sgct. Showkat Ali No. 964/B, Sgct. Nasir Ahmad No. 556/B Sgct. Mushtaq Hussain No. 451/B, SgctGh Mustafa No. 66/AP 9th (AWP), Ct. Abdul Wahid No. 601/IR 9th , Ct. Bilal Ahmad No. 510/IR 14th Ct. Muzafar Ahmad No. 737/IR 13th Bn, Ct. Javid Ahmad No. 447/IR 13th Bn, Ct. Ameet Pal Singh. No.1117/B, Ct.

Rameez Ahmad No. 731/B, Ct. MohdYousuf, No.338/IR 8th Bn, Ct. Gulzar Ahmad No. 497/AP 13th Bn,SPOJavaid Ahmad No. 148/SPO , SPO Wasim AhmadNo. 1014/SPO, SPO Tauseef Ahmad No. 310/SPO, SPO Hakim Din No. 747/SPO(Baramulla), SPO Gulzar Ahmad No. 83/SPO , SPO Mohamad Arif No. 297/SPO,,SPO Amjad Khan No. 1014/SPO, SPO Syed Suheel No. 885/SPO, SPO Sareer Ahmed No. 1074/SPO, SPO FayazAhamd No.1538/SPO, SPO Mohd Amin No. 1741/SPO, SPO Bashir Ahmad No. 723/SPO, SPO Umar Majeed No. 95/SPO, SPO Mohdlqbal No.588/SPO and SPO Ab. Rehman No.703/SPO volunteered themselves to be part of search and cover teams. Search operation was stated under the close supervision of operational officers present on spot and was led by Shri Nissar Ahmad Dy SP (OPS) Baramulla. While carrying out search of the suspected area, all of sudden the searching team624 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 came under heavy fire from the terrorists who had taken shelter in the hideout. The search team was enough vigilant and remained unharmed during the attack. Keeping in view the safety and security of the house inmates, the fire was not retaliated and a meticulous strategy was chalked out to evacuate safely the house inmates, as well as the people from the adjacent houses. Following the directions of undersigned and other operational officers present on spot, cover team engaged and confined hidden terrorists in one side of the hideout with tactful retaliatory fire and search team led by Shri Nisar Ahmad Dy SP (OPS) Baramulla which was assigned the task to made safe evacuation of houses intimates which they did successfully without any harm. Soon after the evacuation exercise, rescue party was also assigned the role of site intervention as they volunteered for this life threatened act. Terrorists opened fire indiscriminately upon the said party and tried to break the cordon, however, the fire was retaliated. The police party remained committed and did not allow the terrorists break the cordon. The fierce encounter between the assault party and terrorists under the outer covering support of joint operation teams and terrorists remained continued for hours together. Seeing their death close, the hidden terrorists came out from hideout in open fields and fired indiscriminately upon assault party in order to escape towards nearby forests, but assault party remained committed and allthe 05 terrorists were instantly gunned down. After carrying further search of the area no further movement/ presence of terrorists was established and finally operation was called-off. Arms/Ammunition were recovered for the encounter site includes 02 AK-47 Rifle, 03 AK-56 Rifle, 03 UBGLs, 22AK-47/56 Magazines, 420 AK-47 catridges, 69 Empty catridges (Khokha), 21 Chinese Hand Grenade (Destroyed on spot), 27 UBGL Grenades, 03 IED (destroyed), 01 BP Patkha, 05 Pouch, 03 Watches, 01 Stop Watch, 02 Knife, 04 Lighter, 05 Bag (Hokersacks), 01 Ispagol (Made in Pakistan), 08 Tab. Brofien (Diclophnic) (Made in Pakistan), 05 Tab. Grovin (Seal open) and 01 Fresh up (Made in Pakistan). In this connection, Investigation conducted into the matter reveals that these terrorists were foreigners and have infiltrated into this side recently for carrying out subversive activities in the valley. For the said incident Case FIR No. 15/2016, U/s 7/27 Arms Act 307 RPC, stands registered in P/S Bijhama and further investigation is going on.

In this operation S/Shri Nissar Ahmad Darzi, DySP, MohdSaideq, ASI and Gh. MustaffaKatoch, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 15/08/2016.

(No. 11020/121/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 62-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 2nd of August 2017, following a credible intelligence input, Police Kulgam in assistance of 9/62 RR and 18thBn CRPF under the command of SP Kulgam launched a joint operation at village Gopalpora. Initially cordon was strengthened, all escape routes plugged, efforts made to evacuate the civilians and terrorists were asked to surrender. The hiding terrorists hurled grenades with indiscriminate firing upon police/ SFs in order to flee and took shelter in a drain. Shri Ajaz Ahmad, Addl. SP Kulgamalongwith his buddy Const Bilal Ahmad instantly evacuated the civilians from the village to safer places to avoid any civil causality and took every effort to chase the terrorists who took shelter in a nearby drain. The officer showed his ability as a team leader and capitalized his team in skilled manner to strengthen the cordon of the area. Darkness, and drain surrounded with dense orchards was biggest barrier for the operational party to execute the operation. The trapped terrorists were trying their best to giveslip to the security forces so as to flee away from the spot. The officer and his buddy did not give them a chance to move away from the spot. The brave officer took risk and came closer to the terrorist in an open field without caring for their personal safety. The terrorists tried to abolish their belongings (valuable information and evidences) by throwing in water to destroy it. The police party under the command of Addl. SP Kulgam retaliated and neutralized both the terrorists and culminated the operation successfully without any collateral damage. Another peculiar feature of the operation was that Shri Hilal Khaliq KPS DySP PC Kulgamalongwith his buddy ConstArshid Ahmad No. 488/SPN (now 1076/Kgm) and Inspector Vishal Shooralongwith hisPART I—SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 625 buddy Const. Anil Singh No. 481/IR 2nd sealed the outer periphery of encounter site and backed the operational contingent professionally and did not allow the gathering to swell which would have been turned into law & order breach. Due to relentless efforts and efficient management made by these brave officers/officials proved crystal clear operation which is exceptional by means of security sensitivity of the district. Most importantly the team maintained public order in such a manner that no law & order problem arises anywhere and did not allow the ANE's to provoke/ instigate the youth in such a vulnerable pocket. Police, CRPF and RR officers and their parties dealt the situation in a professional manner and neutralized both the terrorists, without causing any collateral damage to local population. After neutralizing terrorists, the officers ensured that bodies of terrorists, their weapons & explosives are retrieved safely. The ensuing gun battle lasted for an hour and resulted in elimination of below mentioned terrorists of banned outfit HizibulMujahideen (HM). Aqib HussainItoo S/o Ab Hamid R/O Gopalpora (Category "C") Suhail Ahmed Rather S/0 Arif Hussain Rather R/O Tantraypora (Category "C"). It is pertinent to mention here that without brave and gallant action of Shri Ajaz Ahmad Addl. SP Kulgam and his buddy Const. Bilal Ahmad No. 929/Kgm, it would have been difficult to eliminate these terrorists. The terrorists could have managed to flee taking the cover of grenade lobbing and darkness, had not the officer and his buddy exhibited their professional skills, maintained presence of mind, and ready to sacrifice their lives purely in the interest of national integrity and security of state. Their role was exemplary and outstanding in the conducting of particular operation.

In this operation S/Shri Ajaz Ahmed Zarger, Addl. SP andBilal AhmadSheikh, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 02/08/2017.

(No. 11020/123/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

——————

No. 63-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 29/01/2016 a specific input was received through reliable sources regarding presence of a heavily group of armed terrorists in Dardpora village of Lalpora area. The input was further developed and an operation was planned and launched by District Police Kupwara headed by Shri Ajaz Ahmad (then SSP Kupwara), Shri Fayaz Hussain (then ASP Kupwara) and Shri Hilal Khaliq (then DySP PC Lolab) involving manpower of P/S Lalpora, PC Sogam and contingents of Army 28 RR and 162 Bn CRPF. The target area was cordoned and search operation launched. SgCtMohdSubhan No. 338/KP (Now HC) and SgCtImtiyaz Ahmad No. 713/KP (Now HC), SgCt. Tanveer Ahmad No. 601/AP 7th, Ct. Mushtaq Ahmad No. 813/KP, Ct. Manzoor Ahmad No. 1049/PI, Ct. Muneer Ahmad No. 931/KP, SPO Shabir Ahmad No. 638/SPO, SPO Mohdlqbal No. 1031/SPO, SPO Jahangir Ahmad No. 13/SPO, SPO Ab. Majeed No. 367/SPO, SPO Manzoor Ahmad No. 1024/SPO and SPO Fayaz Ahmad No. 16/SPO volunteered themselves for the teams and tasked to carry search operation and to give cover protection to the search party. In the evening, while search operation was on, hiding terrorists fired heavily on the search party of Army and police with the intention to kill them. The search party was attentive and escaped the attack of terrorists. The fire was effectively retaliated by the cover party during which one terrorist got instantly killed. Rest 02 terrorists took shelter in the house of Manzoor Ahmad Chohan S/O Shah Zaman R/O LoharMohallaDardpora. Since the said area was already under the cordon of Police and Army, the terrorists find no way to flee from the spot and fired heavily on the police party. Due to darkness, the search operation was halted to avoid any harm to the security forces/house inmates. In the wee hours of 30/01/2016, inmates of the house were safely evacuated and after that a dedicated team of officers/officials and above mentioned officials exercising the operational drill made the final assault on the terrorists. Terrorists were zeroed and after a fierce gun-fight, both the terrorists were eliminated. A thorough search of the area was again conducted but no presence of terrorists was further seen/reported and finally the operation was called off. In the whole operation, 03 hardcore terrorists were eliminated who were identified as 1. Muzamil @ Abu Usama (A+ Cat.) 2. Maroof @ Dujana (A+ Cat.) and 3. Israr (A Cat.) of LeT Outfit. These terrorists were operating626 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 in District Kupwara particularly in Lolab belt since 2013 and were involved in a series of attacks on SFs. Their elimination brought an end to the old survival group of LeT terrorists. The arms/ammunition recovered during the operation includes AK-47 Rifle 3, AK-47 Mag 14, AK Rounds = 427 Rds, 9 mm Pistol 1, Mag. Pistol 2 Nos, 9 mm Amn 20 Rds, Indian Currency Rs. 2810, Radio (Rubina) = 01 Nos and other war like stores. For the instant operation, case FIR No. 07/2016 U/S 307 RPC, 7/27 I. A Act stands registered in P/S Lalpora. Further investigation of the case is going on.

In this operation S/Shri MohdSubhanNaik, SgCT and Imtiyaz Ahmad Malik, SgCT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 29/01/2016.

(No. 11020/128/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

——————

No.64-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

On 26-01-2016, on a specific information generated by Police Srinagar/Anantnag regarding presence of terrorists in the house of Ab. Rashid Wani S/o Ab. Khaliq Wani R/O Khalhar, Kokernag. Accordingly, a joint operation was launched by SOG Kokernag / SOG Srinagar with the assistance of 19 RR. Two teams lead by Syed MajeedMosaviDySP (Ops) PC Srinagar and Shri Mohd Aslam, Dy. SP Ops (PC) Kokernagalongwith Shri Javidlqbal, Dy.SP KPS-125737, L/HC DolleyKour 26531S, SgctRashpal 647/IRP, Ct Rakesh Pandita 817/S, Ct. Mohammad Firdous 32/AWP, SgCt Asif lqbal No. 1344/A, SPO Umer Bashir 197/SPO, SPO Showkat Ahmad 176/SPO, SPO Javid Ahmad 1352/SPO, SPO Gowhar Hussain 160/SPO, SPO Showkat Ahmad 93/SPO and SPO Mohammad Issac 912/SPO were deputed for carrying out CASO. Both the officers coordinated with 19 RR and cordoned the village under the supervision of SP (OPS) Anantnag and overall supervision of SSP Anantnag. The operational component along with 19 RR headed by the above mentioned officers zeroed in the target site house. On seeing the police parties approaching towards the target house, terrorist hiding inside fired indiscriminately to inflict casualties on police and to break the cordon but due to extreme presence of mind and strong command over the teams lead by Sh. Syed MajeedMosavi, DySP PC Srinagar and Sh. Mohd Aslam DySP PC Kokernag did not provide any chance to terrorists to break the cordon and kept advancing towards the target house without caring for their own safety. It was exceptionally brave effort from the teams who advanced despite bullets being showered over them by the terrorists. The officers in order to avoid any civilian/ collateral damage, evacuated the neighboring population and kept picketing towards the target house. The terrorist in utter frustration came out of the house, fired indiscriminately on police parties in order to break the cordon and escape, but the brave and gallant action of Shri Syed MajeedMosavi, DySP PC Srinagar and Shri Mohd Aslam DySP PC Kokernag and their teams who without caring for their lives not only managed elimination of the terrorist but also ensured zero collateral damage and evacuation of civilians from the area. The eliminated terrorist was later identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Haroo @ Adil S/o Mohammad Amin Haroo R/O PushwaraAnantnag of HM outfit (B-Category). Arms/ ammunition recovered during the operation includes 1 AK-47 Rifle, 4 AK-47 Magazines, 107 AK-47 Rounds, 1 Pouch and 1 Aadhar Card (S.No. 480319198834). Case FIR No. 11/2016 u/s 307 RPC , 7/27 I.A Act stands registered in P/S Kokernag in this regard.

Needless to mention here that the slain terrorist was active since 2015 and was great threat for peace and tranquility in the area. He was frequently visiting Kokernag area to carry out terrorist attack on SFs. He was under the radar of SOG Kokernag. The slain terrorist was motivating the youth to join terrorist ranks to rebuilt the HM base in Anantnag/Kokernag towns.

In this operation S/Shri Syed MajeedMosavi, Dy.SP and Asif Iqbal Qureshi, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 26/01/2016.

(NO. 11020/133/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

——————

No.65-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/ 1stBar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 30-07-2017, at about 0330 hours, reliable information was received by Police Pulwama regarding movement of terrorists in village TahabPulwama. The information was shared with Sh Sayed Zaheer Abbas Jafari, DySP (Ops) Pulwama and it was established that terrorists are hiding in the house of Abdul Khaliq Bhat S/O Mohammad Rajab Bhat. This information was then shared with 55 RR 182/183 Bn CRPF and it was decided to launch a joint operation. SSP Pulwama and DySP (Ops) Pulwama along with Police component Pulwama including HC Zahoor Ahmad 1376/PL, HC Zafferlqbal 906/PL, Ct Mushtaq Ahmad 1619/PL, Ct. Mushtaq Ahmed 1544/PL, Ct. Zahid Abass 1297/PL Foll. Mohammad Asgar 21/F/others along with officers/officials of 55 RR and 182/183 Bn CRPF left towards the TahabPulwama and a joint cordon was laid. SOG Pulwama led by SI Mohd Hafiz ARP- 109251 with the assistance of SPO Sabzar Ahmed 596/SPO, SPO SomNath 63/SPO-Jammu, SPO Mohammad Shafi 463/SPO, SPO Bashir Ahmed 330/SPO, SPO lrshad Ahmed 115/SPO, SPO Ashiq Hussain 145/SPO, SPO Akhter Hussain 382/SPO and SPO lmtiyaz Ahmed 161/SPO and others joined the inner cordon parties and terrorists fired upon them. During fire retaliation, Inspector Masrat Ahmad Mir ARP 026108, SI Mohd. Hafiz ARP 109251 and HC Manga Ram No 586/IR 7th Bn managed to enter into the target house and had a head to head fight with the terrorists during which Inspector Masrat Ahmad Mir, SI Mohd. Hafiz and HC Manga Ram had a narrow escape. Since terrorists were on an advantageous position thus could attack the team lead by Inspector Masrat Ahmad Mir however, the officer and his men effectively retaliated the fire and were able to demoralize the terrorists. Also in order to avoid the collateral damage, the officer positioned themselves at two different sides of the house and a pause in fire retaliation was witnessed. In the meantime, DySP (Ops) Pulwamaalongwith Ct Mudassir Ahmad 1533/PL EXK-127104 and FollShabir Ahmad Kooli F-46/IR 11th ARP- 135666 reached near the target house and terrorists while seeing the police party approaching towards them, opened indiscriminate firing upon DySP (Ops) Pulwama and his team. The officer applied good presence of mind and effectively retaliated the fire. The holed up terrorists in an attempt to escape from the cordon, jumped out from the window of the said house and kept on firing indiscriminately upon the police party led by DySP (Ops Pulwama). The police party without caring for their lives, remained alert at the point of death and kept their mind cool and present, tackled the situation bravely which resulted in elimination of terrorists in an open field. The slain terrorists were identified as Showkat Ahmad Mir @ Shabir (Category-C) S/O Mohammad Ahsan Mir R/O MehandSrigofwaraAnantnag and Sharik Ahmad Sheikh (Category-C) S/O Ali Mohammad Sheikh R/O GulzarPoraAwantipora. Arms/ammunition recovered during the operation includes 1 SLR Rifle (damaged), 1 INSAS Rifle (damaged), 2 SLR Magazines (1 damaged), 1 INSAS Magazine (damaged), 1 LMG Magazine (damaged), 32 SLR live rounds, 12 INSAS rounds and 2 Pouch. Case FIR No. 245/2017 U/S 307 RPC, 7/27 I. A. Act stands registered in Police Station Pulwama in this regard.

In this operation S/Shri Masrat Ahmad Mir, Insp., Mohd. Hafiz, SI and Manga Ram, HCdisplayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 30/07/2017.

(NO. 11020/138/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty628 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 No. 66-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/ 1stBar to Police Medal for Gallantry/3rd Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

On 05-08-2017 at about 12:30 AM, Police Sopore received a specific information regarding presence/ movement of LeT terrorists in Jamia Mohalla of Amargarh Sopore who are in attempt to carry out some major strike on Police/SF establishments. Acting on the information, Sopore Police alongwith the troopers of Army 52RR & CRPF contingents of 179/ 177/ 92 Bn CRPF cordoned off the area and launched search operation. During search, a contact was established with the terrorists who were hiding in a residential house of one Bashir Ahmad Ganie S/o Ghulam Nabi Ganie R/O Jamia-Mohalla Amargarh, Sopore. Since it was dead of night and people were in deep sleep, there was every possibility of civil causality, if the target house is stormed at the very movement. So in order to avert the civil causality two joint parties of Police/ Army/ CRPF comprising upon 1 st Joint Party SI Sajad Ahmad ARP-109307, ASI Yousf-ul-Umer 29/IR 3rd Bn, ASI Farooq Ahmad 24/Spr, HC Muzaffer Ahmad 34/Spr, Sgct Tariq Ahmad 222/Spr, Sgct Fayaz Ahmad 45/Spr, Sgct Akeel Ahmad 46/Spr, SPO Asif Rasool 198/SPO, SPO Mohd Ashraf 420/SPO, SPO Shabir Ahmad 285/SPO, SPO Ab Majeed 306/SPO, SPO lshfaq Ahmad 10/SPO, SPO Aijaz Ahmad 208/SPO led by Sh. Harmmet SinghSSP Sopore and 2n d Joiny Party comprising of Inspr. Sabzar Ahmad No. 7179/NGO, HC Javid Ahmad 220/Spr, Sgct Bilal Ahmad 709/Spr, Ct. Myser Ahmad 475/Spr, Ct. Nazir Ahmad 593/Spr & Ct. Mubashir Ahmad 588/Spr, SPO Zahoor Ahmad 324/SPO, SPO Hushiar Singh 497/SPO-Ang, SPO Parwaiz Ahmad 152/SPO, SPO Fayaz Ahmad 295/SPO, SPO Mohd Altaf 89/SPO, SPO Aijaz Ahmad 308/SPO led by DySP (Ops) Sopore were formed. Both the teams were tasked to evacuate the trapped civilians first and accordingly the 1 st Joint Party started evacuation of the civilians by putting themselves in a great risk and the 2n d Joint Team was tasked to provide protection to the 1s t Joint Party and all the trapped civilians were safely evacuated from the cordon area and the cordon was tightened. The holed up terrorists were warned to surrender but in return they opened heavy volume of firing upon the joint parties. In the initial firing ASI Yousf-ul-Umer. got injured and immediately evacuated to the hospital for treatment. The 1st Joint Party comprising of SI Sajad Ahmad led by Sh. Harmmet Singh—SSP Sopore which was already on forefront did not lose their morale despite of the fact that their colleague sustained bullet injuries retaliated the firing resulting in fierce firefight. Since the terrorists were inside the house and three in number, were in defensive positions who kept firing continuously in different directions upon the joint parties. The 1s t joint party volunteered themselves to approach the target house for final assault and the 2n d Joint team was providing covering firing/ protection. The 1s t joint party started approaching towards the target house and the 2n d joint team gave covering firing/ protection and as soon as the 1s t Joint Teams was about to reach the main front door of the target house, two holed up terrorists jumped out the house through the main door and while jumping out they fired indiscriminately upon the advance party with their sophisticated weapons, but the advance party by exhibiting highest degree of bravery, professionalism, persistence and presence of mind retailed the firing effectively which too in close propinquity/ volatile situation and in the shootout two terrorists were killed on spot. In the meanwhile other holed up terrorist after noticing that his two accomplices were killed, also jumped out from the house through a window and while coming out from the house, he kept firing continuously upon the Police/ SFs. While escaping he tried to hide himself and to take safe shelter/ position in a deep drain passing nearby the target house, but the 2nd Joint Team which was already put on outer side provided back up firing support. During the assault, 3rd terrorist was also neutralized. The slain terrorists were identified as Abid Hamid Mir S/0 Ab Hamid R/o Mir Mohalla Hajin Distt. Bandipora (C-Category 'LeT'), Javaid Ahmad Dar S/0 Mohd Akber Dar R/O Kumar Mohalla Khanpora District Baramulla. (C-Category of LeT) and Danish Hassan Dar @ Furkan S/O Gh. Hassan Dar R/O Mumkhak Sopore. Arms/ammunition recovered during the operation includes 3 AK-47 Rifle, 6 AK-47 Magazines and 10 Rounds of AK-47. Case FIR No. 82/2017 U/S 307/RPC, 7/27 A. Act stands registered in to the incident in Police Station Tarzoo and investigation taken up.

In this operation S/Shri Harmeet Singh, SSP Sajad Ahmad Ganie, SI, Farooq Ahmad Mantoo, ASI, Mazafar Ahmad Tantray, HC andAkeel Ahmad Malik, SgCT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 05/08/2017.

(No. 11020/140/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 67-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/1stBar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

On 03/04-07-2017, at about 0700 hours, reliable information was received by SSP Pulwama regarding movement of terrorists at village Bamnoo Pulwama. The input was further shared with Shri Chandan Kohli-IPS, ASP Ops Pulwama and Shri Syed Zaheer Abbas Jafari, Dy.SP Ops Pulwama. The said information was further developed and specified by Addl. SP Pulwama to the effect that terrorists are hiding in three houses belonging to Mohammad Yousuf Wagay S/o Abdul Khaliq Wagay, Ab. Rashid Wagay S/o Ab. Khaliq and Ali Mohammad Wagay S/o Mohammad Jamal of village Bamnoo. This information was also shared with 44 RR, 182/183 Bn CRPF and it was decided to launch a joint operation. Afterwards, SSP Pulwama, Addl. SP Pulwama and DY.SP Operations Pulwama along with Police party from Police Component Pulwama, 44 RR and 182/183 Bn of CRPF left towards the village Bamnoo Pulwama in order to cordon the target Mohalla and a joint cordon was laid. A rapid action party of SOG Camp Pulwama comprising Ct Babar Mohi-Ud-Din No. 1465/PL EXK-127400, Ct Tajdar Ahmad No. 11261PL EXK- 115833, Ct Javiad Ahmad No. 1618/PL EXK-127363, Ct Jaffar Bashir No. 1630/PL EXK-127646, Ct Mohammad Muzaffar No. 1078/PL EXK-116473, Ct Anees Ahmad No. 1130/PL EXK-119927, SPO Bilal Ahmad No. 87/SPO, SPO Rouf Ahmad No. 250/SPO, SPO Mudasir Manzoor No.130/SPO, SPO Mustafa Kamal No. 267/SPO and SPO Owais Ahmad Sheikh No. 139/SPO under the supervision/command of SSP Pulwama without taking too much time, cordoned the target houses from the North, Northeastern and Northwestern sides alongwith party of 44 RR, 182/183 Bn CRPF. Another party of the same camp comprising Ct Ab. Rashid No. 1021/PL EXK- 111871, Ct Suhail Hussain No. 1170/PL EXK-112111, Ct Mohammad Ibrahim No. 812/PL EXK-106257, Ct Bilal Hussain No. 1305/PL EXK-135578, SPO Mohammad Ismaiel No.1100/SPO, SPO Bilal Ahmad No. 221/SPO, SPO Arshid Ahmad No. 44/SPO, SPO Vijay Kumar No. 19/SPO, SPO Bilal Ahmad No. 21/SPO, SPO Nisar Ahmad No. 99/SPO and SPO Aijaz Ahmad No. 540/SPO supervised by Shri Syed Zaheer Abbas Jafari, Dy.SP Ops Pulwama cordoned the area from South, Southeastern and Southwestern sides along with another party of 44 RR 182/183 Bn CRPF. These officials maintained the inner cordon and remained alert. SSP Pulwma and DySP Ops Pulwama personally supervised tightening of the cordon around the target houses. After laying/strengthening the cordon, steps for search of terrorists in the target houses were started. As the houses were located adjacent to each other and were all bigger in size, it was decided to lead the searching parties from two different directions. One led by SSP Pulwama alongwith ASI lshtiaq No. 166/IR 11th Bn and Ct Tajdar Ahmad No. 1126/PL and another led by Dy. SP OPS Pulwama along with HC Abdul Khaliq and Ct Suhail Hussain. Shri Chandan Kohli, Addl SP Pulwama assisted by Ct Nazir Kohli No.1046/PL with the help of police party who had maintained the inner cordon provided the covering fire for room intervention to the parties mentioned above. Both the parties approached from two different directions simultaneously and managed to enter into the target house. Terrorists on seeing the approaching police parties fired indiscriminately on them and gave them a narrow escape. However, showing exemplary courage and presence of mind SSP Pulwama, DySP (Ops) Pulwama and Ct Tajdar Ahmad immediately took positions and retaliated in self defense forcing terrorists to turn defensive. Both the parties, after examining the location inside the target houses returned to the cordon safely but this time the strategy to execute the operation was fully organized. The cordon was intensified and retaliation of fire was firmly executed. The terrorists continued to fire indiscriminately on SFs from three sides which could have result in loss of lives of troops and the civilians who were on foot as usual in view of day hours. But coordinated management of SSP Pulwama, DySP Operation Pulwama assisted by Ct Tajdar Ahmad tackled such a crucial situation and retaliated the fire with absolute bravery. The operation continued for whole day but no success in dominating terrorists were made in the day. During night several measures were taken to dominate terrorists so they could not escape from the cordon. Next morning i.e on 04-07-2017 at about 0500, hours, SSP Pulwama/DySp (Ops)Pulwama again through respectable of the area cautioned terrorists to lay down their arms before Police/SF's besides. The caution was ignored by terrorists and instead630 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 they started indiscriminate firing upon the Police and security forces with the intension to kill them and escape from the cordon. The officers/officials of Police present there without caring their lives remained alert and retaliated bravely. When the firing stopped from the side of terrorists, a joint searching party of officers/officials of Pulwama Police /Army/CRPF was constituted. During search, three dead bodies were recovered and later on identified as Akthar Alam Khan (Category-C) S/o Noor Alam Khan R/o Vajaypur Reasi Jammu, Jahangir Ahmad Khanday (Category-C) S/o Ghulam Rasool Khanday R/o Kellar Shopian and Kifayat Ahmad Khanday (Category-B) S/o Mohammad Ahsan Khanday R/o Rajpora Bamnoo Pulwama. The details of arms/ammunition recovered during the operation are mentioned at seizure memo. Case FIR No. 40/2017 U/S 307 RPC, 7/27 I. A.Act stands registered in Police Station Rajpora in this regard.

In this operation S/Shri Mohd Aslam, SSP, Sayed Zaheer Abbas Jafari, DySP and Tajdar Ahmad Ganai, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 03/07/2017.

(No. 11020/143/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 68-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry (Posthumously) to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

Shri

In the wee hours of 2/9/17, acting on a credible input about presence of terrorists in village Tantraypora, Police Kulgam, an operation under the supervision of Sh Shridhar Patil-IPS, SSP Kulgam, Sh Ajaz Ahmad, Addl. SP Kulgam, Sh Aman Kumar, DySP (Ops) Hatipora was launched. In the operation, troops of PC Manzgam/62 RR andCRPF 18th Bn were involved which laid cordon of said village. Hiding terrorist on noticingthe movement of SFs, tried to flee away taking the advantage of darkness. Terrorist was asked to surrender but he denied and fired indiscriminately upon the searching party. Being an auspicious Muslim festival Eid-ul-Azha, on that day, a strategy was chalked out and terrorist was provided escape so that he may be trapped outside the village to avoid civil interface. Strategically an ambush was laid nearby Orchards under the command of Sh. Aman Kumar, DySP Ops Hatipora along with his operational team comprising SgCt Nisar Ahmad No. 812/Kgm, Const. Mohammad Abass 703/IRP ARP-085717, Const. Shahnawaz Ahmad No. 582/Kgm EXK-077504, Const. Ashiq Ahmad No. 988/Kgm EXK-116619, SPO Mohd Abass No.371/K, SPO Kalwant Singh No. 181/K, SPO Mohd Sharief No. 248/K and SPO Mohmad Yanoos No. 398/K to nab the terrorist. Due to strenuous efforts, planning and better supervision/coordination with other forces Shri Aman Kumar, DySP (Ops) Hatipora and his above mentioned team succeeded in elimination of dreaded terrorist in a close pitched battle. On the other side HC Chail Singh No. 149/IR 9th and SgCt Naseer Ahmad No 807/Kgm have controlled the outer periphery of the encounter site. Due to the collective efforts put forth by the officers and officials, one terrorist namely Ishfaq Ahmed Padder S/o Ab Rehman Padder of LeT outfit Category `C" recommended for "B" was neutralized without any collateral damage. The recoveries effected from the encounter site includes 1 AK Rifle, 2 AK Empty Magazines(damaged), 42 Live rounds of AK, 1 Pouch, 1 Pull Through, 1 Purse with Rs. 540/- rejected note 1 No. of Rs. 500/-, 1 Identity Card (Aadhar No. 795851432635 and 1 Mobile Charger. For which case FIR No. 71/2017 U/S 307 RPC, 7/27 I A Act stands registered in P/S Yaripora.

It may be mentioned that the area was vulnerable and there was every apprehension that civilians might have tried to reach the encounter site to help the terrorist to flee away and sympathizers/OGWs of the terrorists could have provoked the general people especially youth to indulge in stone pelting by taking the advantage of Eid. HC Chail Singh alongwith SgCt Naseer Ahmad No 807/Kgm after assessing the situation chalked out the strategy with other officers and sealed the area properly which resulted crystal clear operation and ensured Eid-ul-Azha prayers peacefully when situation was predicted to be volatile. These brave officers lead the joint teams of Police and RR in professional manner and dealt the situation amicably which resulted in the elimination of the terrorist who was big threat to the security of people/state.

In this operationLate Shri Aman Kumar, DySP displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 02/09/2017.

(No. 11020/144/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 69-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 06-10-2016, at 05:05 hrs, Handwara Police received information that heavily armed terrorists has attacked Bn Hqrs 30 RR Camp Langate with the intention to enter forcibly into the Camp and carry out a suicidal attack. Accordingly, police party rushed towards the spot. On reaching the spot (30 RR camp), the army authorities informed that 02/03 terrorists has launched a suicidal attack (Fidayeen attack) on the rear side of 30 RR Bn Hqr. The terrorists had managed to crossover the boundary fencing of the camp but were still hold up near the army post. In order to eliminate the heavily armed terrorists without collateral damage, a meticulous planning was formulated. The entire area was cordoned off including the adjacent Mohallas of Langate area. As the presence of terrorists was already established near the rear side of the Army Camp, a joint assault team from Army & Police was formulated in which SI Jan Mohmad No.248/PAU and Ct Robin Ravinder No.848/AP 7th volunteered themselves for the assault teams . The assault team headed by Sh. Gh. Jeelani Wani, SSP Handwara along with SI Jan Mohmad Ganaie ARP- 109243, HC Mohd Shafi 111/H, SgCt. Irshad Ahmad 467/H, SgCt Robin Ravinder ARP-095475, Ct. Imran Ahmad 618/H, Ct. Javid Ahmad 624/H, Ct. Showkat Ahmad 366/H, SPO Latief Ahmad 16/Ex, SPO Tariq Ahmad 112/SPO, SPO Qasim Rashid 47/Ex, SPO Firdos Ahmad 340/SPO, SPO Wasim Raja 204/SPO, SPO Khusheed Ahmad 397/SPO, SPO Rayees Ahmad 126/SPO, SPO Firdos Ahmad 105/SPO and SPO Nazir Ahmad 582/SPO started advancing towards hiding terrorists. However, the terrorists opened heavy volume of fire upon them. The team provided cover fire to each other, without caring for their own lives reached in close proximity of the terrorists in a fire retaliatory exercise. During this exercise they were well supported by each other which provided protection against the terrorist fire and at the same time, gunned down one terrorist. This counter attack from the assault team put terrorists on back foot however they (terrorists) have already taken advantageous positions due to which the task was becoming more difficult. At around 0615 hours, SI Jan Mohmad alongwith SgCt Robin Ravinder advanced further and the terrorists indiscriminately opened fire on them who had reached very close to the terrorists, however with great caution and exhibiting skilled battle tactics, no harm was done to the assault team, at the same time SI Jan Mohmad and SgCt Robin Ravinder retaliated swiftly, launched an audacious counter attack on the terrorists. The fierce gun battle continued about half anhour and during the exchange of firefight, the remaining three terrorists were also eliminated. Although whole assault party displayed great valor during the elimination of the dreaded terrorists but it was only with great valor and missionary zeal of SI Jan Mohmad and SgCt Robin Ravinder that the fidayeen attack of terrorists was foiled. The slain terrorists were later identified as Hataf R/o PaK A+ Category, Khitab R/o PaK A+ Category and Ilyas R/o PaK A Category terrorist of LeT outfit.

In this operation S/Shri Jan Mohmad Ganaie, SI and Robin Ravinder, SgCT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 06/10/2016.

(No. 11020/153/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty632 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 No. 70-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

In the wee hours of 14/03/2017, an input was generated regarding presence of terrorists in village Kunnard Jugtiyal of Batpora Haihma area of District Kupwara. The input was further developed and shared with 41 RR. Accordingly joint operation was planned and launched by Police Kupwara and 41 RR. 41 RR was also involved in the process of cordon search operation and 01 coy of CRPF 98th Bn was deployed in the outer-cordon. The whole area was put under tight cordon and during the operation, the search team came under heavy fire from terrorists who were hiding in the house jointly owned by Fareed Ahmad and Showkat Ahmad both S/Os Nek Alam R/O Kunnard Jugtiyal. During the attack, one constable namely Danish Ahmad 1087/KP who was part of the search team got injured and he was airlifted and shifted to 92 Base Army Hospital Srinagar for treatment. A tactical team plan was chalked out based on the ground realities and an assault team comprising of ASP Arif Amin, DySP Faraz Hussain, DySP Fayaz Hussain, SI Mohd lqbal ARP-109315, SI Harvinder Singh ARP-109247, ASI Mushtaq Ahmad 152/KP, HC Ab. Rashid 300/KP, HC Mehraj-u-din 196/KP, SgCt. Sartaj Ahmad 178/IRP 8th Bn, Ct. Manzoor Ahmad 1081/KP, Ct. Mushtaq Ahmad 1040/KP, Ct. Mohd. Younis 539/KP, Ct. Mohd Ashraf 1108/KP, Ct. Mohd. Shabir 1071/KP, Ct lqbal Yakoob 949/KP, Ct. Imran Khan 406/KP, Ct. Ashiq Ahmad 1018/KP, Ct. Gh. Rasool 697/KP, Ct. Danish Mand 1087/KP, Foll. Mohd Shafi 22/F, SPO Nazir Ahmad 622/SPO, SPO Mohd lqbal 444/SPO, SPO Mushtaq Ahmad 269/SPO, SPO Anzar Hussain 796/SPO,. SPO Fayaz Ahmad 147/SPO, SPO Mousam Ali 177/SPO, SPO Mohd Yousuf 346/SPO, SPO Javeed Ahmad 179/SPO, SPO Manzoor Ahmad 5/SPO, SPO Mohd Haneef 890/SPO, SPO Shams-u-din Chechi 718/SPO, SPO Javeed Ahmad 1076/SPO, SPO Parvaiz Ahmad 815/SPO and others led by SSP Kupwara was tasked to advance towards the target and make final assault upon the terrorists. The team exercised operational drill and moved close to the target and faced stiff resistance from the hiding terrorists, but the team holds steel nerve and repulsed the fire tactfully and succeeded by engaging with retaliatory fire during which the target house was zeroed. The terrorists fired indiscriminately due to which stray bullets hit 02 children namely Faisal Ahmad Chechi (aged about 7 years) and Kaneeza (aged about 6 years) son and daughter respectively of Khusi Mohd R/O Kunnard Jugtiyal. Later, both the injured children were evacuated but Kaneeza succumbed to injuries on spot. Injured Faisal was shifted to SKIMS Srinagar for further treatment. Later making the final assault, all the 03 terrorists were eliminated. The house in which the terrorists were hiding got fully dama ged. Arms/ammunition recovered during the operation includes 3 AK Rifle, 11 AK Magazines, 280 AK Rds, 03 Pouches, 01 Wireless set (without battery).01 Sim, 01 GPS Set, 04 Hand Grenades (Chinese), 02 UBGL Shells and 01 Matrix Sheet. Investigation conducted into the matter revealed that the slain terrorist were foreigners and affiliated with LeT outfit. They were identified as Abu Mala, Anas Bhai and Abu Mansoor (all "A" categorized terrorists). For the said incident, case FIR No. 57/2017 u/s 307 RFC, 7/27 I.A Act stands registered in Police Station Kupwara and further investigation taken up.

In this operation S/Shri Arif Amin Shah, ASP, Faraz Hussain Shah, DySP, Mushtaq Ahmed Mir, ASI displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 15/03/2017.

(No. 11020/154/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 71-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal/ 1st Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 18-12-2017, Police Shopian received a specific information regarding presence of terrorists in Village Batamurran Wanpora of P/S Keller. After getting this specific information, Police Shopian along with 44 RR & 14th BN CRPF cordoned off cluster of houses at the said village. In order to make the operation successful, two Police/SF teams under the joint supervision of Shri Shriram Dinkar Ambarkar-IPS, SP Shopian were constituted to identify the actual location/hideout of terrorists. The constituted teams were succeeded in zeroing the suspected house in which these terrorists were hiding and subsequently neutralize them without any collateral damage. All the parties positioned themselves according to the plan as enumerated above. The cordoned area comprised of a very difficult terrain which included scattered residential houses, dense orchards and deep Nallas. The area was sealed off and all the possible escaping routes including path ways for orchards, interior roads & lanes/by-lanes were plugged properly. In order to make the operation successful, the whole deployments were divided into two parties under the overall supervision of SP Shopian with full coordination of 44 RR and 14th Bn CRPF. The First party comprised of Police and QRTs of 44 RR/14th Bn CRPF headed by Shri Wajahat Hussain DySP assisted by Si Muneer Ahmad EXK109557 was asked to lay the cordon of the suspected house from North- East and South- Eastern side. The 2nd Police party with QRTs of 44 RR and 14th Bn CRPF headed by SP Shopian assisted by SI Arif Hamid ARP115626 laid the cordon of the target house from North —West and South Western sides. Two search parties comprising of Police Shopian ( PC DPL) and QRT of 44 RR and 14 BN CRPF under the supervision of Shriram Dinkar Ambarkar, IPS ( SP Shopian) and 2ndparty comprising of Police Camp Keller and QRT of 44 RR and 14 BN CRPF under thesupervision of Shri Wajahat Hussain DySP were constituted. During the search, the terrorists hiding in the area resorted to indiscriminate firing upon the troops from different sides withthe intention to cause damage and to break down the cordon. The hiding terrorists kept changing their locations in order to avoid disclosing their specific location. The search party immediately took cover and retaliated with a strategy and precision due to which the terrorists did not find any opportunity to escape from the besieged area. In order to avoid any civilian causality, the operational Commander (SP Shopian) directed the parties to evacuate the people trapped in the cordoned area. While the evacuation process was taking place, the assault groups headed by SSP Shopian came under heavy fire of terrorists. However they did not lose their concentration and continued the evacuation process without caring for their personal lives. In the meantime; a violent mob started heavy stone pelting on the troops engaged in the cordon with the intention to breakdown the cordon so that the trapped terrorists can get opportunity to flee from the area. However, the law & order components deployed in the area for the purpose exercising maximum restraint and handled the situation tactfully. Since it had become dark and there was every apprehension that the besieged terrorists may attempt to escape from the cordon in the darkness , as such it was decided to reinforce the cordon and the troops were briefed to hold up the CASO strictly and strongly so that the trapped terrorists may not find any opportunity to flee during the night. At about 2000 hours, the besieged terrorists hurled grenades followed by indiscriminate firing upon the parties and tried to escape from the cordoned area. However Shri Shriram Dinkar Ambarkar, IPS, SP Shopian alongwith Police parties including Shri Wajahat Hussain Dy.SP, SI Muneer Ahmad, SI Arif Hamid, HC Ravees Ahmad 1309/PL,Sgct Ankit Koul 479/IR 18th,Sgct Ravees Ahmad 1146/0L,Sgct Arshad Ahmad 218/IR 18,Ct Manzoor Ahmad 623/SPN, Ct Anjum Javid 746/IR 14th,Sgct Mohd Abass 808/IR 18th,Ct. Rakesh Singh 719/IR 14th,Ct Tahir Yousuf 708/SPN, Sgct Bilal Ahmad 555/AP 8th, Ct. Abid Ali 644/IR 18th, SPO Raheel Ahmad Qazi 125/SPN,SPO Shahid Ahmad 151/SPN,SPO Kaheem Farooq 163/SPN, SPO Masroor Ahmad 236/SPN, SPO Mohd lshaq Reshi 113/SPN,SPO Shabir Ahmad 322/BD,SPO Muzaffar Ahmad 14/SPN, SPO Mohd lmran 97/SPN,SPO Showkat Ahmad 186/SPN and SPO Rayees Ahmad 401/SPN fought from the front and succeeded in elimination of two dreaded terr orists including a For eigner. Howe ver the third terr or ist managed to hide himself in an anotherhouse. The search for the 3rd terrorist continued till 2200 hours during the night. As darkness fell, the Operational Commander decided to suspend the search process till first light. However, at about 0400 hours, the besieged terrorist hurled few grenades followed by indiscriminate firing upon the troops which has resulted bullet injuries to two CRPF/Police personnel and a civilian lady. Instead of chasing the terrorist, the f or c e s pr e f er r e d t o sa ve t he l i ve s of i n ju r e d pe r son s a n d sh if t e d t he m t o h os p i ta l f or treatment. Taking advantage of the situation arisen due to injury of two CRPF/Police personnel and civilian lady, said terrorist managed his escape from the spot in the darkness. The slain terrorists were later on identified as Kahaf © Ali Bhai Qari, a Pakistani terrorist (category A+) and Tanveer Ahmad Bhat S/o Gh. Nabi R/o Batamurran Wanpora (category B) of JeM outfit. Arms/ammunition recovered during the operation includes 02 AK series Rifles (damaged), 04 AK series Magazines, 40 AK rounds, 02 Pouch Chitra, 01 Shaving Kit (Black), 02 Jaap Mala, 02 Shampoo Bottles (empty), 02 Oil Bottle (Black) and 01 Belt. Case FIR No. 65/2017 U/S 307 RPC,212 RPC,7/27 A.Act, was registered in P/S Keller and investigation taken up.

In this operation S/Shri Shriram Dinkar Ambarkar, IPS, SP, Muneer Ahmad Bhat, SI and Ravees Ahmad, HC displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 18/12/2017.

(No. 11020/156/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 72-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the1stBar toPolice Medal for Gallantry/2nd Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry/3rd Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 05.06.2017 at 03:40 am, Police Bandipora received information that a heavily armed Fidayeen Squad comprising of 04 foreign terrorists R/O Pakistan intended a prolonged siege and extensive damage to CRPF 45 Bn located near to FCI Sumbal. The terrorists attempted by cutting the concertina wire fencing and forcing their entry by shooting at the sentry with bullets. In the meanwhile, Police Party of Police Bandipora also reached the spot. The sentries responded with alacrity and retaliated resulting in heavy exchange of fire. A core team of JKP headed by Sh Sheikh Zulfkar Azad, SSP Bandipora assisted by Sh Stanzin Losal, Addl. SP Bandipora, Sh Baljit Singh, DySP PC Bandipora, Sh Rashid Akbar Makayee SDPO Sumbal, Sh Mehboob Hussain Banday SHO PS Sumba and their buddy Sgct Mohammad Rameez 189/Bpr, Sgct Mohd Shafi 244/Bpr and Ct Ashaq Ahmad Dar 969/Bpr showing nerve of steel, volunteered for the said job. This rescue team comprising of Sgct Ab. Hameed 420/Bpr, Sgct Nissar Ahmad 430/Bpr, Sgct Tariq Ahmad 3135/Sgr, Ct Willayat Ali 154/AP 8th, Iftikhar Ahmad 342/Bpr, Ct. Aejaz Ahmad 415/Bpr, Ct. Gulzar Ahmad 578/Bpr, Ct. Shamas din 719/Bpr, Ct. Aijaz Ahmad 928/Bpr, Ct. Farooq Ahmad 951/Bpr, Ct. Mushtaq Ahmad 535/AP 8th, SPO lshtiyaq Mir, 15/SPO, SPO Raqeeb Ahmad 42/SPO, SPO Hilal Ahmad 49/SPO,,SPO Aijaz Ahmad 51/SPO, SPO Shabir Ahmad 59/SPO, SPO Farooq Ahmad 65/SPO, SPO Jehangir Ahmad 82/SPO, SPO Ali Mohammad 138/SPO, SPO Abdul Rasheed 158/SPO, SPO Firdous Ahmad 167/SP0, SPO Shabir Ahmad 179/SPO, SPO Manzoor Ahmad 205/SPO, SPO Mohammad Asif 223/SPO, SPO Shafiqul Rehman 233/SP0, SPO Gh Rasool 278/SP0, SPO Shabir Ahmad 310/SPO, SPO Zahoor Ahmad 316/SPO, SPO Imtiyaz Ahmad 322/SPO, SPO Showkat Ahmad 323/SPO, SPO Jalal ud din 416/SPO and SPO Naseer Ahmad 425/SPO led by Sh Sheikh Zulfkar Azad put their lives in great risk as terrorists kept on firing indiscriminately upon the rescue teams. Sh Stanzin Losal Addl. SP Bandipora had got the area blocked by the team of Police Sumbal, Police Bandipora, SOG Bandipora and 13 RR around the target using concertina wire. Feeling the noose around their necks the terrorists started the deceptive firing in order to get a space for fleeing and to confuse the operation team, but the meticulous planning of Addl. SP Bandipora, DySP PC Bandiporaalong with their buddy did not let the terrorists to execute their evil designs, retaliated in an audacious manner and moved towards the target site in a fire retaliatory exercise resulting in the neutralization of 04 hard core foreign terrorists of fidayeen squad. Arms/ammunition recovered during the operation includes 4 AK-47 Rifle (damaged), 12 AK-47 Magazines (damaged), 137 AK-47 Rounds, 07 UBGL Grenades, 01 UBGL, 07 Grenades, 04 Ammu. Pouch and 03 Patrol Bottles. Case FIR NO 59/2017 U/S 307 RPC, 7/27 I A. Act stands registered in P/S Sumbal in this regard.

In this operation S/Shri Sheikh Zulfkar Azad, SSP, Rashid Akber Makayee, DySP and Mehboob Hussain Banday, Insp. displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 05/06/2017.

(No. 11020/158/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special DutyPART I—SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 635 No. 73-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the 2nd Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 24-01-2018, at about 1900 hours, on a specific information about presence of terrorists in Village Chaigund Aadoora, Police Shopian in association with troops of 44 RR, 14 Bn CRPF under the command of SP Shopian laid a joint CASO of said Village to trace out the terrorists hiding there. In order to make the operation successful, 04 assault teams were constituted to cover the vulnerable areas effectively. Accordingly, all the exit routes including lanes by lanes and path ways through the Nallah and orchards were plugged and search operation started. On seeing the Police party headed by Shri Shriram Dinkar Ambarkar, IPS SP Shopian assisted by SI Arif Hamid I/C PC Keller Operations Keller marching towards the suspected house, the terrorists started indiscriminate firing upon the search parties looking for an escape from a particular route which was immediately manned by Police party headed by Shri Shafat Mohammad Najar, DySP Ops Keller. Due to the indiscriminate firing of terrorists, a youth and 02 girls sustained bullet injuries who were immediately shifted to hospital for treatment. In order to avoid any further civilians fatal/non fatal injuries, SP Shopian briefed the troops to evacuate the civilians trapped in the cordoned area to safer places. During the evacuation process, the Police parties came under heavy firing without any injury. Accordingly, the above Police Party decided to advance towards the terrorists. On sensing the crawling movement of troops, the terrorists opened volley of fire upon the joint troops. However, the fire was retaliated in a professional manner by the Police party including HC (Dvr) Bashir Ahmad 16/SPN, HC Mohd Farooq 116/AP 12th, Ct Tanveer Ahmad 497/Spn, Ct. Javid Ahmad 806/Spn, Ct Sanjay Kumar 488/IR 18th, Ct Mashooq Ahmad 627/IR 6th, SPO Gulzar Ahmad 211/Spn, SPO Gowhar Ahmad 162/Spn, SPO Tariq Ahmad 98/Spn, SPO Mohd Rafiq 150/Spn, SPO Gulzar Ahmad 349/Spn, SPO Farooq Ahmad 06/Spn & SPO Mohd Fazil 402/Spn who fought with courage, without caring for their lives and were instrumental in the elimination of 02. LT's namely Firdous Ahmad Lone S/o Abdul Rashid Lone R/o Ganowpora Shopian (category-B) and Sameer Ahmad Wani S/o Hilal Ahmad Wani R/o Audoora Cheegund, Shopian (category-C) of HM outfit. Details of arms/ammunition recovered during the operation are mentioned at seizure memo. Case FIR No. 21/2018 U/S 307 RPC,7/27 A.Act has been registered in P/S Shopian and investigation taken up.

In this operation Shri Shafat Mohmmad Najar, Dy.SP displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 24/01/2018.

(No. 11020/159/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 74-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

In the intervening night of 13/14-10-2017, at about 2330 hours, information was received by SSP Pulwama about the presence of terrorists at village Litter Pulwama to carry out terror attacks in the District. Accordingly, SSP Pulwama informed Addl.SP Pulwama Sh. Chandan Kohli, IPS and in the meantime, it was known that terrorists are hiding in the joint house of Tariq Ahmad Malik, Raju Malik, Arif Malik (sons of Ghulam Hassan Malik and Bashir Ahmad Malik of the said village). This information was shared with 55 RR, 03 RR 182/183 Bn CRPF and a joint cordon of the targeted Mohalla was laid. Thereater, Addl. SP Pulwama along with DySP (Ops) Pulwama with SOG party from Police Component Pulwama comprising of HC Lateef Ahmad 814/PL, SgCt Yashpaul 292/IR 1st Bn, SgCt Gh. Mohd 355/PL, SgCt. Gazi Shah 556/PL, SgCt Fayaz636 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 Ahmad 342/PL,Ct Javaid Ahmad 853/PL, Ct Maqsood Ahmad 872/PL, SPO Aqib Ahmad 181/SPO-ANG, SPO Shoib Ahmad 314/SPO, SPO Hilal Ahmad 313/SPO, SPO Manzoor Ahmad 81/SPO, SPO Basheer Ahmad 234/SPO, SPO Manzoor Ahmad 277/SPO,SPO Touseef Ahmad 149/SPO and SPO Abdul Rasheed 128/SPO among others, 55 RR, 03 RR and 182/183 Bn of CRPF left towards Litter Pulwama in order to cordon the targeted house. Addl. SP Pulwama also instructed I/C PC Lassipora SI Mohammad Hafeez ARP- 109251 and I /C PP Lassipora SI Gowhar Ahmad EXK-109472 to reach out the targeted location. On reaching the targeted place, a joint cordon of Police Pulwama under the command of Addl. SP Pulwama was laid.

Despite having specified knowledge about the terrorists hiding in the target house, the search for the terrorists in the adjoining houses was started and the families were shifted to the safer places to avoid any casualty. Addl. SP Pulwama along with his team members which included SI Mohammad Hafeez ARP-109251, SI Gowhar Ahmad EXK- 109472, Ct Maqsood Ahmad 872/PL, SPO Touseef Ahmad 149/SPO, SPO Abdul Rasheed 128/SPO moved towards the targeted house which was already under cordon. The house was 03 storied and during search nothing was found in the first 02 floors. But as soon as the search party was moving to the 3rd floor of the house, terrorists hiding there started indiscriminate firing on the troops. However, they had a narrow escape in the incident. The presence of mind and gallant action shown by the officers by retaliating the fire inside the house and managed to escape from the said house. Meanwhile, the cordon was intensified on the directions of Addl SP Pulwama and 04 teams were constituted to execute the retaliation. One comprising of Addl SP Pulwama himself along with his SOG party which include Sgct Mohammad Shafi 1326/PL, SgCt Sunil Kumar 820/IR 11th Bn, Sgct Naseer Ahmad 884/PL, and Sgct Heemu Kumar 818/IR11th Bn and other troops of Army/CRPF cordoned the house from southern side Another 03 sides were accordingly cordoned by DySP (Ops) Pulwama Sh. Zaheer Abbas Jafari, SI Mohammad Hafeez ARP109251 and SI Gowhar Ahmad EXK- 109472 along with their parties and counter parts of CRPF/ Army from Northern, Eastern and Western sides respectively. Since, it was dark, all measures so that terrorists could not escape and Generator was plugged on to illuminate the targeted area. This task was completed under the supervision of above named officers. After the illumination of targeted area, civilians present there were evacuated one by one which was personally executed by Addl. SP Pulwama Sh. Chandan Kohli IPS assisted by SI Gowhar Ahmad EXK-109472 and SI Mohammad Hafeez ARP-109251 amidst volley of fire fired by the terrorists. The evacuation of civilians was made possible with the help of covering fire provided by DySP (Ops) Pulwama Shri Zaheer Abbas Jafari. After evacuation process, the terrorists were given an opportunity to lay down their arms (through respectables of the area) which they denied and kept indiscriminate firing upon the troops. The officers/officials present there remained alert at the point of death and life, kept their mind cool/present and tackled such a crucial situation bravely which resulted the elimination of two terrorists who were later on identified as Waseem Ahmad Shah @ Usama (Cat. A++) S/O Gull Mohammad Shah R/O Tengpora Heff Shirmal Zainapora Shopian and Nisar Ahmad Mir (Cat-B) S/O Ab. Hameed Mir R/O Litter Pulwama. Arms/ammunition were made from the eliminated terrorists includes 1 AK-56 Rifle (damaged), 1 AK-47 Rifle, 3 AK-56/47 Magazines (1 damaged), 54 AK56/47 Live Rounds and 2 Body Pouch Chitra Colour (Burnt). Case FIR No. 363/2017 U/S 307, 148, 149,336, 353 RPC 7/27 I. A.Act registered in Police Station Pulwama and investigation taken-up in this regard.

In this operation S/Shri Chandan Kohli, IPS, ASP and Gowhar Ahmad Bhat, SI displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 13/10/2017.

(No. 11020/160/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 75-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/ 1stBar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

In the month of October 2017, a technical input was generated by ESU South Srinagar that PAK based LeT Commander Waleed Bhai has directed his valley based LeT Commander Mohammad Bhai R/O PAK to carry out a fidayeen attack in Srinagar City through his carders. On receipt of this input, SI Mohammad Irfan EXK- 109318, SI Parvaiz Ahmad EXK-993381, SI Arif Ahmad EXK-109225, ASI Mohammad Amin EXK-971365, HCPART I—SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 637 Azad Ahmad EXK-984097, SgCt Mohammad Altaf EXK125500, SgCt Showkat Ahmad EXK-075602,CT Khursheed Ahmad EXK-096166, CT Saleem Khan EXK-021785, SPO Parvaiz Ahmad Mir 196/SPO, SPO Suhail Mushtaq 158/SPO, SPO Javid Ahmad 950/SPO, SPO Ab Gani Dar 122/SPO, SPO Gh. Mohammad 534/SPO and SPO Mohammad Saleem No. 209/SPO of ESU South Srinagar visited the area of operation of LeT Commander Mohammad Bhai R/O PAK i.e. Ananwan Handwara, Magam and Rafiabad Sopore and activated the local sources of the area. On 21/10/2017, at 2000 hours, the input was further developed by SI Mohammad Irfan, SI Parvaiz Ahmad, SI Arif Ahmad, ASI Mohammad Amin, HC Azad Ahmad, SgCt Mohammad Altaf, SgCt Showkat Ahmad, CT Khursheed Ahmad, CT Saleem Khan, SPO Parvaiz Ahmad Mir, SPO Suhail Mushtaq, SPO Javid Ahmad, SPO Ab Gani Dar, SPO Gh. Mohammad and SPO Mohammad Saleem No. through technical analysis and cultivated human sources that LeT Commander namely Mohammad Bhai R/O PAK of LeT outfit is hiding at orchards of Ananwan Handwara. A special team from ESU South Srinagar under the command of SI Mohammad Irfan and others visited the said village and got a complete briefing from the source. The team after carrying out the reccee of the area reported back. The team also succeeded in zero in the area in which the said LeT Commander was hiding i.e. Ananwan Handwara. On 22/10/2017, at about 0400 hours, the team under the supervision of Sh. Ashish Mishra-IPS (SP South Srinagar) along with adequate nafri from ESU South Srinagar rushed to the spot. Before the operation was conducted, it was decided to share the information immediately with 30 RR/9PARA and joint operation was planned in the above mentioned area in order to avoid collateral damage and to conduct clean operation. All the operational nafri was divided into two parties. First party comprised of 30 RR was tasked to lay the outer cordon of the target area. The second party comprised of SP South nafri and 9 PARA was tasked to lay the inner cordon of orchards Ananwan Handwara in which the terrorist was hiding and if required to make an intervention under the command of Sh. Ashish Mishra-IPS (SP South Srinagar) with full coordination. All the parties positioned themselves according to the plan as enumerated above. The search operation was started during onset of the limelight and while carrying out search operation of the area, the terrorist opened indiscriminate firing upon the joint searching party resulting in the fierce fire fight. Since the terrorist was holding up huge cache of Arms/Ammunition, resulting in long drawn gun battle during which the terrorist made series of attempts to cause causalities to police/ SFs. However, the vigilant joint operational team exhibited extra ordinary professionalism/courage, neutralized one Pak Fidayeen terrorist later identified as @ Mohammad Bhai R/O PAK without any collateral damage. Arms/ammunition recovered from the possession of slain terrorist includes 1 AK-47 Rifle, 3 AK Magazines, 35 AK Live Rounds, 5 AK dead Rounds, 1 Pouch, 2 Grenade, 3 notes of Pak Currency (Rs.100), 1 note of Pak Currency (Rs. 500), 4 Notes of Indian Currency (Rs. 500), 4 tablets Medicine Ibufropin, 1 Tablet Medicine Adrosve Genctcide, 4 Tablets Medicine DoxYcyal, 1 Medicine Alcohol Pad and 01 Medicine Bandit. Case FIR No. 109/2017 U/S 7/27 I.A.Act stands registered in Police Station Kralgund Handwara, in this regard.

It may be mentioned that the slain terrorist was operating in the area and in its surroundings for quite some time and was playing an important part for his mentors operating across the border. He was given the responsibility of receiving fidayeen groups from across the border and dispatching them to different parts of the valley. His elimination is believed to be a big achievement for the Police/SFs.

In this operation S/Shri Parvaiz Ahmad Bhat, SI and Arif Ahmad Shekih, SI displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 22/10/2017.

(No. 11020/164/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 76-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the President's Police Medal for Gallantry/ Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 08.07.2016, Shri Abdul Jabbar, IPS, SSP Anantnag developed an actionable intelligence regarding presence of terrorists of HM outfit in village Voi-Bomdoora Kokernag. Immediately, on receipt of the information, a joint strategy was chalked out by SOG Srinagar/Anantnag with 19 RR. Accordingly heavy deployments of SOG from Cargo Srinagar and SOG Hqrs Anantnag along with active assistance from the troops of 19RR, was launched for a counter insurgency operation under the command of SSP Anantnag with assistance of DySP (OPS) PC Kokernag and other Police party of District Anantnag present on the ground to control and coordinate the sensitive operation. The challenging task was dealt very tactfully & finally well planned cordon was laid. First joint search party comprising Shri Ab Jabbar, IPS, SSP Anantnag alongwith Shri Mohd Aslam„ Dy. SP PC Kokernag, SI Rishi Kumar, ARP115577, Sgct Ashiq Hussain 407/IRP, Sgct Sanjeev Singh 439/IRP, Sgct Mohammad Khalil 377/IRP, Sgct Mushtaq Ahmad 368/IRP, Sgct Suresh Kumar 926/A, Ct Manzoor Ahmad 1849/A, Ct Mushtaq Ahmad 612/AWP, Ct Arif Hussain 546/IRP, Ct Sham Lal 527/IRP, Ct Tajamul Hussain 1481/A, Ct Khurshid Ashraf 580/Awt, Ct Ishfaq Ahmad 1616/A, Ct Zahoor Ahmad 639/IRP, Ct Ajay Kumar 235/IRP, Ct Asif lqbal 1344/A, Basharat Ahmad No.1166/SPO, Waheed Ahmad Lone No. 425/SPO, Firdous Ahmad No.212/SPO, Bilal Ahmad No. 1298/SPO, Farooq Ahmad No. 668/SPO, Firdous Ahmad No. 1172/SPO, Aijaz Ahmad No. 1259/SPO, Adil Hussain No. 252/SPO, lmtayaz Ahmad No. 692/SPO, Ab Qayoom No. 263/SPO, Bashir Ahmad No. 875/SPO, Mohd Rafeeq No. 893/SPO, Irshad Ahmad No. 204/SPO, Mazoor Ahmad No. 342/SPO, Arshid Ahmad No. 552/SPO and Javid Ahmad No. 271/SPO entered into the house and they came under heavy volume of fire from 02 different directions. The second searching party comprising of Sh Javaid lqbal KPS, SP (Ops) Srinagar alongwith Sh. Gh Hassan KPS, DySP (PC) Srinagar, SI Gowhar Rashid ARP109410, SgCt. Asif lqbal Qureshi 1344/A, HC Ramesh Kumar 2194/S, HC feroz Ahmad 450/IRP, HC Parmanand Thapa 129/IRP, Sgct Shamas Din 378/IRP, Sgct Altaf Hussain 470/IRP, Ct Pawan Kumar 156/S. Ct Shabir Ahmad 4521/S, CT Parvaiz Ahmad 552/IRP, Ct Mohammad Maqbool 720/IRP, Ct Sushil Bali 356/IRP, Ct Rakesh Pandita 817/S, SPO Parvaiz Ahmad 362/SPO, SPO Mudasir Nabi 914/SPO, SPO Iftikhar Ahmad 307/SPO, SPO Mohammad Rameez 260/SPO, SPO Mohammad Alyas 301/SPO, Mohammad Parvaiz 363/SPO, SPO Raoof Ahmad 1019/SPO, SPO Mehraj-u-din 463/SPO, SPO Mohammad Amin 844/SPO and SPO Farooq Ahmad 594/SPO was also constituted.

At the first moment, civilians including children, women and elderly people were evacuated from the cordoned area to avoid civilian causalities. Shri Abdul Jabbar, then SSP Anantnag properly briefed & deployed nafri at strategic points to prevent escape of the hidden terrorists. After analyzing the situation, SSP Anantnag alerted the troops to keep the confidence & hold the cordon strongly. The hiding terrorists were asked to come out from the house and laid down their Arms. The adamant terrorists replied with heavy fire followed by grenades upon the cordoned parties to enable them to escape. However, the fire was effectively retaliated without caring for their precious lives which led to the killing of three terrorists including most wanted hardcore Divisional Commander of HM namely Burhan-ud-din Wani Arif S/0 Muzafar Ahmad Wani (A++ Category) R/O Shareefabad Tral, Sartaj Ahmad Shiekh ©Khalid S/O Mohammad Munnawar R/O Takiya Ahmad Shah Peer Takiya Kokernag A+ Category) and Parvaiz Ahmad Bhat S/0 Wall Mohammad Bhat R/O Noorpora Tral. Arms/ammunition recovered from the eliminated terrorists includes 2 AK-47 Rifle, 1 AK-56 Rifle, 9 AK Magazines, 4 UBGL Grenades, 2 UBGL Thrower, 181 AK Rounds, 2 Grenade, 3 Detonators, 2 Pull Throw, 02 LED Lites, 3 Pouch, 3 Battery, 2 Ear Phones, 2 Scent Bottles and 2 Gillette Blades. Case FIR No. 117/2016 U/S 307 RPC, 7/27 A. Act has been registered in P/S Kokernag in this regard.

Needless to mention that the terrorist commander Burhan Wani was active since last six years known as Poster boy. He was acting as Divisional Commander HM and involved in a number of terrorist activities. On his directions, HM carried out attacks on SFs/Police leading to killing of several SFs/police personnel and injuries to others. He was mastermind in spreading Cyber war against the Government of India by using Hi-tech Social media He was mastermind in motivating the youths to join terrorist ranks. All the three slain terrorists were great threat for peace and order in SKR particularly main towns on NSW viz Bijbehera, Anantnag and Awantipora including Railway track.

In this operation S/Shri Abdul Jabbar, IPS, SSP, Gh. Hassan Sheikh, DySP, Mohd Aslam, DySP, Rishi Kumar Barwala, SI and Arif Iqbal Qureshi, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 08/07/2016.

(No. 11020/165/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special DutyPART I—SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 639 No. 77-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/ 1stBar to Police Medal for Gallantry/ 2ndBar to Police Medal for Gallantry/3rdBar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 31-03-2018 Police Shopian received specific information that HM terrorist cadres operating in District Shopian are convening a meeting at Village Kachdoora to discuss the strategy to be adopted for carrying out more and more subversive actions in district Shopian. The said village was surrounded by thick orchards had been very vulnerable from terrorism point of view and conducting an operation in such an area was a challenging task for the Police/S1²s in the prevailing situation of fear psychosis created by terrorists. Upon developing a specific input about the presence of HM leadership in the said village, it was decided to launch a quick cordon and search operation in village Kaehdoora. In order to make the operation successful two Police/SF teams under the supervision of SP Shopian were constituted to zero in on the location/hideout of terrorists and subsequently neutralize them without any collateral damage. For the said purpose, DlGP SKR Anantnag divided Police Personnel into two parties. The First parry comprising of Police Shopian and QRTs of 34 RR and 14th Bn CRPF headed by SP Shopian assisted by Dy.SP Hqrs Shopian was asked to lay the cordon of the target area from North Eastern and South Eastern side and the second Police part' and QRTs of 34 RR and 14th Bn CRPF headed by SP Ops Shopian assisted by and DySP PC Keller was tasked to lay the cordon of the target area from North-West and South- Western side. All the parties positioned themselves according to the prepared plan as enumerated above. The cordon area comprised of a very difficult terrain which included scattered residential houses, dense orchards, deep Nallas and other dense vegetation. "lbe area was sealed off and all the possible escaping routes including path ways for orchards, interior roads & lanes/by-lanes were plugged tightly. Two search parties comprising of Police Shopian and QRT of 34 RR and 14 Bn CRPF, under the supervision of Shri Shrimm Dinkar Ambarkar-IPS, SP Shopian & Shri Ashiq Hussain DySP and second party comprising of Police Shopian and ORI of 34 RR and 14 Bn CRPF under the supervision of Shri Ifroz Ahmad. SP Ops Shopian and Shñ Majad Ali DySP Ops Keller were constituted. During the search process the terrorists hiding in the area hurled grenades following by indiscriminate firing upon the troops from different sides with their illegal automatic weapons with the intention to cause damage to the forces and to break down the cordon resulting in bullet injuries to 03 Arrmy personnel who were immediately evacuated to hospital for treatment, however, they later on succumbed to their injuries. The hiding terrorists kept changing their locations again and again in order to avoid disclosing their specific location. The search party immediately took cover and retaliated with a strategy and precision due to which the terrorists did not find any opportunity to escape frail thebesieged area. In order to avoid any civilian causality the operational Commander (SP Shopian) asked the parties to evacuate the people trapped in the cordoned area. While the evacuation was taking place the assault groups headed Shri Shriram Dinkar Amharkar SP Shopian, Shri lfroz Ahmad SP Ops, Shri Ashiq Hussain DySP and Shri Majad Afi DySP came under heavy fire, however they did not lose their concentration and continued the evacuation process without caring for their lives and completed it successfully. In the meantime, a violent mob started pelting stones on the troops engaged in the cordon with the intention to breakdown the cordon, however, the law & order components deployed in the area for the purpose exercising maximum restrain and using minimum force handled the situation tactfully. In view of darkness, there was every apprehension that the besieged terrorists may attempt to escape from the cordon in the night, as such, it was decided to reinforce the cordon and the troops were directed to hold up the CASO strictly and strongly so that the trapped terrorists may not flee in the darkness. In the meantime, the cordon party came under heavy firing from outside the cordon as the terrorists from other locations tried to help the trapped terrorists to escape from the cordon. This firing was effectively retaliated by the cordon party without loosening the cordon in any manner and thus foiled their nefarious plan. However, the trapped terrorists made repeated attempts to come out of the cordon by firing indiscriminately upon the cordon party taking advantage of the darkness. This fire was effectively retaliated by the cordon party and repulsed the trapped terrorists back into the cordon area.

In the first light the search operation was resumed and the search party was ab:e to zeroing the suspects place and the adjoining houses in which the tenonst presence was established. The besieged terrorists were asked to surrender; however, they denied and opened heavy volume of fire upon the forces. The search party headed Shri Amit Kkmar, IPS, DIGP SKR Anantnag and Shri Shriram Dinkar Ambarkar SP Simplon retaliated the lire effectively with courage wid bravely and neutralized the top 03 terrorist. At the same time, the terrorists hiding in the adjoining house opened heavy the upon the search pans . lhese terrorists were once again asked to lay down the arms. However, they refused to accept the call for sun-ender and resumed heavy firing. Then, the assault parties includinu Shri Ifroz. SI Muneer Ahmad EXK I 09557, SI Arif Hamid ARP-I I 5778 HC Ravees Ahmad Sgct Fariq Ahmad 189/SPN, Sgct Firdous Ahmad 493/SPN, Sgct Sanjay Kumar 523/IR 18, Sgct Raj Pal Singh 510/SPN, Sri640 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 Mohd Akliter 468/AP 14, Sget Shafeeq Ahmad 469/AP 4th, SgCt. Sameer Ahmad No. 495I PL. Ct. Mohd Ashraf 464/SPY, Ct Mohd Waseeni 3789/PW, Ct Aijaz Ahmad 543/SPY, Ct Asif lqbal 5561SPN, Ct Shabir Ahmad 789/SPN. Ct Bilal Rasool 761/SPN, Ct Naseer Ahmad 764/SPN. Ct Nazir Ahmad 699/SPN. Ct Irshad Ahmad 462/SPN, Ct Showkat Alunaci 52911R 10th,-Ct Shahhaz Ahmad 635/IR 18, SPO Bilal Ahmad 413, SPO Mohd lqbal 182, SPO Zameer Ahmad 32, SPO Ab Ahad 169, SP() Reshpal Lal 555/J, SPO Diyal Sineh 859/1, SPO Muzafar Wani 357/SPN, SPO Zahid Ramzan 184/SPO Mohd Ashraf 239/SPN, SPO Ab Salam 201/Kgm,SPO Shahir Ahmad 203, SPO Gh Hassan 01, WO Shiraz Ahmad 171,SPO Nahida After 04. SPO Nasir Ahmad 316, SPO Gulxzar Ahmad 66, SPO Ichpal Singh 27, SPO Javid Ahmad 144 and SPO Narinder Singh 245/B retaliated the terrorist lire effectively and successfully neutralised two more dreaded terrorists. Five terrorists are eliminated namely Ishfaq Ahmad Thoker S/o Ab Majeed R/o Padderpora, Aitmad Ahmad Dar S/o Fayaz Ahmad R/o Amshipora, Samir Ahmad Lone S/o GH Nabi r/o Hillow. Aqib lqbal Malik S/o Mohd lqbal R/o Ringath D H Pora Kulgam and Gayas-UI- Islam S/oBashir Ahmad Thoker R/o Padderpora of HM outfit. Arms/ammunition were recovered from the possession of slain terrorists includes 01 INSAS Rifle, 109 INSAS Rounds, 03 INSAS Magazines, 02 AK-56, 04 AK 56 Magazines (01 damaged), 106 AK 56 Rounds, 16 Pistol Rounds and 04 Lvs Seizure memo arms/ammunition recovered memo's etc. Case FIR No. 91/2018 U/S 307,336,353 RPC 7/27 A. Act, has been registered in P/S Shopian, in this regard.

In this operation S/Shri Shriram Dinkar Ambarkar, IPS, SP,Ifroz Ahmad, ASP, Ashiq Hussain Tak, DySP, Sanjay Kumar Dhar, SgCT, Sameer Ahmad, SgCT and, Mohd Ashraf Dangroo CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 31/03/2018.

(No. 11020/13/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 78-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 04.12.2017, a group of terrorist had laid an ambush to carry out fidayeen attack on Army Convoy near the Village- Nano Badrazund, Kulgam and tired upon the Army vehicles. The patrolling party of Army alongwith Police headed by DySP PC Mirbazar Shri Aijaz Malik with his buddy SgCt Riyaz Ahmad No. 1027/Kgm also sustained injuries. Consequent upon this, the patrolling party of Police / Army retaliated effectively to aver fidayeen attack. Also the patrolling party acted swiftly and did not leave any chance for the terrorist to flee away from die spot. Meanwhile, SSP Kulgam alongwith SOG components of District Kulgam CRPF 163 En and Army personnel of 10 Sikhli reached on spot and launched the search operation in the area and identified the target house where terrorists had taken shelter. The operational Police party headed by Aijaz Ahmed Malik DySP PC, Mirbazar and Hilal Khaliq DySP Kulgam and Dr. Aejaz Ahmed Malik. DySP PC Khudwani Manzgam and his team engaged these terrorists in gun battle and the area was cordoned by the backup parties of Army/Police, Kulgam headed by SHO Qazigund DySP Prob Sahil Mahajan. It was also learnt that the terrorists have forcibly entered in a private building nearby, NHW. The terrorist were asked to surrender hut they refused and hurled grenade towards police party followed by heavy firing which we retaliated by the joint party of Police/Army. In the first instance, one soldier of 10 Sikh sustained grievous injuries. Die police/Skis sensitized the whole area; the locals of the area were evacuated to avoid civilian casualties. During ensuing encounter, 02 FTs(Pak Nationals) and LT were eliminated who were identified as Furkan R/o Pakistan, Abu Maviyah R/o Pakistan and Yawar Bashir S/o BashirAhmed Wani R/o Habilish. Arms/Ammunition recovered from the possession of the slain terrorists includes 03 AK- 47 Rifle (damaged), 04 AK Magazines (02 damaged), 54 AK Rounds, 01 Pouch Chitra 01 Trimmer, 03 Strip Medicine (OX I4G), 01 Vaseline Nafees, 02 Oil Bottle (Streak), 01 Key, 01Ball Pen, 01 Bag Black (Stodious), OI Booklet, 03 Brush (usable), 01 Shave Machine (Blue), 01 Nail Cutter, 01 Watah (Black). 04 Cells, 02 Tube, 01 Pack Blade Silver (Made in Pakistan), 01 Miswak, 01 Charger (Black), 02 Pouch and 01 UBGL. Case FIR No. 333/2017 302, 120-B, 332 RPC 7/27 Arms Act stands registered in Police Station Qazigund, in this regard.

The officers/officials involved in this operation maintained presence of mind by evacuating all the civilian/pedestrians to safer places. In the mean time, reinforcement front PC Kulgam headed by DySP PC Kulgam Shri Hilal Khaliq alongwith his buddy SgCt Yasir Ahmed No 657/Kgm and other troops of SOG arrived at the location and cordoned the area swiftly in a professional mariner.

In this operation S/Shri Hilal Khaliq Bhat, DySP,Dr. Aejaz Ahmad Malik, DySP, Riyaz Ahmad Laway, SgCT and Yasir Ahmad Pathan, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 04/12/2017.

(F. No. I 1020/14/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 79-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/ 1st Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 06.03.2016, specific information was received about the presence of terrorist in village Buchroo located towards north east of District Kulgam and hypersensitive terrorism infested area. Taking into the contemplation, distinctive location and topography of the area, Kulgam police/police party of PC Srinagar under the supervision of Sh. Mumtaz Ahmed—JKPS, then SSP Kulgam was grouped into two parties. Each party was assigned with different responsibilities. The first party led by DySP OPS Manzgam, Sh. Mohd Nawaz Khanday-KPS and his buddy Ct. Ashiq Hussain No, 614/Kgm EXK-126205 along with police party were assigned for inner cordon. DySP (Ops) Manzgam was heading the operation as first tier avenger and the second party headed by ASI Aijaz Ahmed 2606/S EXK-983076 were assigned for outer cordon and law and order duty. Terrorist had taken shelter in village Buchroo (Mir Mohalla) which, is densely populated surrounded by dense plantation and easy escape routes. The cordon was tightened and no space was left for terrorists to break the cordon. The first party led by DySP (OPS) Manzgam along with his buddy/police party cordoned Buchroo -(Mir Mohalla) without caring for their lives in a professional manner in civil vehicles to make revelation. Terrorist opened fire and lobbed grenade upon the first approaching party in order to escape from the village and tried to impose casualties in which DySP (OPS) Manzgam along with his buddy narrowly escaped and bravely fought back with the terrorist. DySP (Ops) Kulgam, DySP (OPS) Manzgam along with police party consisting of ASI Shahnawaz Ahmed 3656/S, ASI Surinder Singh 45/IR 11th Bn, HO Sukdev Singh 04/IR 11th Bn, HC Azad Ahmad Naik 3856/S, SgCt Manzoor Ahmad 961/S, Ct Ruksar Ahmad 656/Kgm, Ct Mohd Altaf 4529/S, Ct Mukhtar Ahmad 4546/S, Ct Fida Hussain 718/Kgm, Mohd lqbal 973/Kgm, SPO Riyaz-ul-Islam 563/SPO, SPO Manjeet Singh 182/SPO, SPO Surinder Singh 839/SpO, SPO Mohd Ashraf 388/K, SPO Bilal Ahmad 373/K, SPO Waseem Ahmad 472/K in particular, audaciously/tactically took position and fired upon terrorist. To obstruct him from further movement and to avoid civil killings, as the people of the said area were very close to the target of terrorist. DySP (OPS) Manzgam along with his buddy have taken every risk to save them from the direct hitting bullets as the terrorist was very much willing to target on common masses so that he can fled away from the spot creating law and order problem. DySP (OPS) Manzgam with his buddy and SOG party along with 1st RR use to take every risk without thinking that they too were under the fierce encounter and are under the close vision of the terrorist, still they have evacuated most of the people from the vicinity and kept them at the safer place. Since the terrorist was hiding in the village and the firing was going on from both the sides. At the other end, police party led by Shri Zaheer Abbas DySP Ops Kulgam with his buddy Ct. Mohd Altaf have shown outstanding performance and immediately laid outer cordon of the area. ASI Surinder Singhand ASI Shahnawaz Ahmed did not allow the gathering to swell and controlled the situation meticulously. The entire team played a vital role during the encounter without caring for their personnel safety. The ensuing gun battle lasted for about four hours and culminated with the elimination of one hardcore HM terrorist namely Dawood Ahmed Sheikh (A+ category) and recovery of huge arms/ammunition including 1 AK-56 Rifle, 2 AK-56 Magazines and 15 AK Rounds. Case FIR No. 49/2016 U/S 307 RPC and 7/27 A. Act stands registered in P/S Kulgam in this regard.

Needless to mention that the slain terrorists were involved in a number of cases viz FIR bearing No. 137/2015 U/S 302/RFC, 7/27 A. Act in P/S Kulgam registered for the killing of a retired Police officer Bashir Ahmed Dar R/O642 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 Ashmuji Kulgam and in other FIRs. With the elimination of said terrorist, HM received a tremendous setback and plans of HM cadre to sabotage SANJY-2016 have been thwarted.

In this operation S/Shri Mohd Nawaz Khandey, DySP, Aijaz Ahmad Mir, ASI and Ashiq Hussain Yatoo, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 06/03/2016.

(No. 11020/16/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 80-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

During the intervening night of 29/30-11-2017 an input was received by CIU Budgam-that 3-4 Fidayeen terrorists of JeM (Afzal Guru Squad) outfit were hiding in joint house of Assadullah Bhat and Mohammad Ahsan Bhat both son's of Gh. Ahmad Bhat and are reportedly planning for a suicidal attack on SF establishment in District Budgam. Accordingly, Police parties lead by SSP Budgam Sh.Tejinder Singh IPS, ASP Budgam alongwith Sh. Mohd Majid Malik-JKPS, DySP PC Chadoora, Sh. Gh Hassan Shiekh-JKPS and DySP PC Budgam Sh. Parupkar Singh-JKPS including SFs proceeded towards the target location. The joint team of Police and SFs cordoned off the target area. In order to safeguard life and property of civilians, all inhabitants of surrounding houses including target house were evacuated successfully without any collateral damage. Hence four joint teams of police and other SFs were formulated to retaliate and neutralize the terrorists. The first team led by ASP Budgam assisted by Inspr. Zahoor Ahmad Ganie, SI Rabinder Singh I/C QRT PC Budgam, HC Tawseeq Ahmad Dar and QRT of 181 BN_CRPF, were given to cover the western side of the target house. Second team led by DySP PC Chadoora assisted by HC Gh. Rasool and HC Nazir Ahmad I/C QRT Pakherpora was given the responsibility to cover Eastern side of the target house. Third team led by Major Aditya of 10 Gharwal Rifles, Maj. Pankaj of 53 RR and Capt. Shashank of 10 Gharwal Rifles was given the responsibility to cover the rear side of the target house. The fourth team led by Maj. Jarmal Sandhu of 53RR and QRT of 178 BN CRPF was given the responsibility of Southern side of the target house. As the gun fight continued, terrorists hiding in the target house positioned themselves on the first floor of the house and started targeting the security forces from all sides. But all the four teams had taken their strategic positions hence terrorists failed to hit any of them. The stone pelting mob was trying their best to dislocate the forces deployed in cordon and make the way for trapped, terrorists to escape. Meanwhile one of the dreaded terrorists came out of target house and lobbed a grenade upon the party of Sh. Gh. Hassan Sheikh-JKPS Dy. SP operations Chadoora, HC Nazir Ahmad I/C QRT ,Pakherpora and others in order to escape the cordon. But keeping their nerves, the team at once pounced upon the terrorist with volley of bullets in such a way that the terrorist was left with no option but to move back into the target house. After a while. the hiding terrorists, made a second attempt by lobbing grenades and tried to cause causality to the Police/SFs and escape from the spot. However, the team retaliated back with full might and neutralized him instantly, who was later identified as Fauji Chacha, a Fidayeen terrorist of JeM outfit R/Q Pakistan. Another terrorist came out from the target house and in a bid to escape the cordon ran towards the western side of the house firing indiscriminately upon the SFs deployed on that side. The party deployed at that side led by Sh. Mohd Majid Malik-KPS and assisted by SI Rabinder Singh I/C QRT PC Budgam retaliated back courageously without caring for their personal safety and eliminated the terrorist from a close range who was later identified as Abu Bakar R/O Pakistan. The third terrorist came out in same fashion lobbying grenades and firing indiscriminately between the area of Maj. Jarmal Sandhu of 53RR, Maj. Aditya of.10 Garhwal Rifles, Maj. Pankaj of 53 RR and Capt. Shashank of 10 Gharwal Rifles and who in retaliation without caring for their personal safety and in a gallant way opened LMG fire on the fleeing terrorist eliminating him on the spot. This terrorist was later identified as Shabir Ahmad Dar @ Shabir Thoker R/O Thokerpora Rajpura,Pulwama.During search three dead bodies were recovered and later all the three were identified as,:Fauji@ FaujiChacha of Afzal Guru Squad (Fidayeen A±+), Abu Bakar of Afzal Guru Squad (Fidayeen A++), Shabir_Ahmad Dar@ Shabir Thoker (Category C).

Arms/amn, were recovered from their possession includes 01 AK47 rifle bearing No.1968-MK-4950 w/o cleaning rod (piston grip damaged), 05 AK-47 Magazine (02 magazines damaged), 66 AK 47 Live Rounds, 01 AK-56 w/o No./Cleaning rod Gas tube and front hand guard semi burnt shelling catch broken), 02 AK-56 Magazines, 45 AK 56 Live Rounds, 01 Short AK-47 (Semi burnt), 03 Pouch (Semi Burnt) and 01 Aadhaar Card No. 364423671032. Case FIR No. 107/2017 U/S 307 RPC, 7/27 A. Act, 03 PASSA stands registered in Police Station Charar-i-Sharief, in this regard.

In this operation S/Shri Mohd Majid Malik, ASP, Gh. Hassan Sheikh, DySP, ZahoorAhmad Ganie, Insp., Gh Rasool, HC and Tawseeq Ahmad Dar,HC displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 30/11/2017.

(No. 11020/17/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 81-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 26-09-2017, Police Baramulla received information through reliable sources regarding presence of terrorists at Maidan valley Uri. The information was shared with 34 RR Army. Accordingly Police Baramulla/34 RR launched a joint search operation at Maidan valley. The search party under the command of Shri Shafkat Hussain, Addl. SP Baramulla and Syed Javaid DySP, SDPO Uri who were searching a part of suspected area, sensed that the terrorists are hiding inside a hideout and immediately they directed their parties not to get close to the hideout to avoid any civilian/SF causality. Rescue team of police personnel was framed headed by SI Ravinder Kumar, EXK-791328 comprising of SI Syed Waseem Akram ARP-115586, SgCt Ab. Wahid EXK-108194 and SgCt Tasaduk Hussain No. ARP-105669 and led it from front.

Rescue party of Police headed by SI Ravinder Kumar got engaged in rescuing the civilian adjacent to target site. During rescue operation, Police party were fired upon by the terrorists, however, no retaliation was made to avoid civilian causality. Soon after completion of the evacuation exercise, a joint assault party was framed comprising of SI Syed Waseem Akram, SgCt. Ab Wahid and SgCt Tasaduk Hussain headed by SI Ravinder Kumarwere assigned the role of site intervention. The hiding terrorists were challenged and asked to came out from the house and surrender before the police party, instead the hiding terrorists opened indiscriminate fire upon police party and tried to break the cordon. However, the fire was retaliated and SI Ravinder Kumar with his men remained committed and did not allow the terrorists to come out from the site and break the cordon. The fierce encounter started between the assault party consisting upon SI Waseem Akram, SgCt Ab.Wahid, SgCt Tasaduk Hussain, and SI Mohd Murtaza 7601/NGO, HC Muneer Ahmad 295/BD, Sgct Manzoor Ahmad 444/B, Ct. Sheeraz Ahamd 1425/B, Ct. Mohd Ishaq 1070/B, Ct Syed Arif Hussian 1277/PL, Ct. Ashiq Hussain 602/B, Ct. Zeeshan Ali 1280/B, Ct. Hilal Ahmad 490/B, Ct, Bashir Ahmad 437/IRP 13th Bn. Recommended for OTP), and (SPO Mukhtar Ahmad 485/SPO, SPO Irshad Ahmed 678/SPO, SPO Shabir Ahmad 437/SPO, SPO Mohd Sadiq 487/SPO, SPO Tanveer Ahmad 799/SPO, SPO Javid Ahmad 1125/SPO, SPO SayeenTanveer 319/SPO, SPO Showkat Ahmad 526/SPO, SPO Ali Mohd 798/SPO, SPO Bashir Ahmad 1234/SPO, SPO Zaffar lqbal Mir 904/SPO (Sgr), SPO Abdul Rashid 199/SPO and SPO Mohd Farid 24/SPO under the outer covering support of joint operation teams and terrorist remained continued for hours together during which the recommendees showed high order camaraderie and retaliated the fire from a very close distance. The recommendees and others intensified the retaliation which leads to their intervention at the site and further advancement to the site where terrorists were hiding. The recommendees without caring for their lives opened volley of fire towards the site where terrorists were hiding. The close range gun battle between recommendees and terrorist took place more than half an hour which lead to elimination of dreaded terrorist of HM outfit, who were later on identified as Ab. Qayoom Najar S/o Ab, Rashid R/O Mumkak Mohalla Sopore, Chief Commander of Lashkar-e-lslam outfit (A++ category terrorist). Case FIR No. 71/2017, U/S 7/27 Arms Act, 307 RPC, stands registered in Police Station Uri, in this regard. Arms/ammunition recovered from the scene of occurrence includes 01 AK-47 Rifle, 04 AK-47 Magazines, 120 AK-47 Rounds, 01 Pistol, 06 Pistol Magazines and 68 Pistol Rounds.

In this operation S/Shri Ravinder Kumar, SI, Syed Waseem Akram, SI, Abdul Wahid Sheikh, SgCT and Tasaduk Hussain Bhat, SgCT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 26/09/2017.

(No. 11020/18/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 82-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the 1stBar to Police Medal for Gallantry/2ndBar to Police Medal for Gallantry/ 4thBar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 30-11-2017 at about 09:45 AM while acting on specific information regarding movement/ presence of LeT terrorists in Kumar Mohalla of Sagipora area, Sopore Police with the assistance of Army 22-RR & 179/ 177/ 92 Bn CRPF cordoned off the area and launched search operation. During search operation contact was established with one terrorist who was hiding in a Nallah near water point in Kumar Mohalla of Sagipora area who was asked to surrender, in retum the terrorist opened heavy fire with his sophisticated weapons on the Police/ SFs, Since there were some civilians inside the cordon area and as such the Police/SFs to avert the civil causality could not retaliate effectively and first preference was given to evacuate the civilians. Accordingly, a joint party including Shri Showkat Ahmad-Dy.SP (Ops) Sopore, ASI Gh. Mohammad 281/Spr, HC Muzaffer Ahmad 34/Spr, Sgct Mushtaq Ahmad 247/Spr, Sgct Irian Farooq 389/Spr, ASI Farooq Ahmad 24/Spr, Sgct Javid Ahmad 15/Spr, Ct. Myser Ahmad 475/Spr, Ct Younis Ahmad 721/Spr, Mohd Ashraf 418/SPO, Khurshid Ahmad 298/SPO, Sajad Ahmad 426/SPO, Javaid Ahmad 26/SPO, Mohd Arif 54/SPO, Bilal Ahmad 343/SPO, Ab. Hamid 315/SPO, Aijaz Lateef 308/SPO, Asif Rasool 198/SPO, Mohd Ashraf 180/SPO & Ishfaq Lateef 10/SPO led by Shri Harmeet Singh-KPS- SSP Sopore was formed to evacuate the civilians. The joint party started the civilians evacuation process and while evacuating the civilians the hiding terrorist fired upon the joint party in which ASI Gh. Mohammad 281/Spr, ASI Farooq Ahmad 24/Spr and SSP Sopore, who were leading in front had narrow escape and Dy.SP (Ops) Sopore, HC Muzaffar Ahmad 34/Spr, Sgct Mushtaq Ahmad 247/Spr and Sgct Irfan Farooq 389/Spr, who were also the members of joint party gave them covering fire. But the party did not lose their morale and continued the evacuation process till all trapped civilians were shifted to the safer places. After complete civilians evacuation, the cordon was tightened and all entry and exist points were resealed, so as to ensure that the terrorist do not escape from the area. Since the terrorist was hiding, in the Nalla and the adjoining area was harshly undulated and there were apprehension of terrorists escape. So keeping in view the situation, SSP Sopore and his team volunteered themselves for final and last assault upon the terrorist and accordingly they started approaching towards the terrorist in crawling position during which the terrorist kept firing continuously and even many bullets hit the closest of SSP Sopore and his team, but they didn't lose their morale and continued approaching towards the terrorist. As soon as they reached close to the terrorist they thoughtfully stood up from the crawling position and effectively fired volume of bullets upon the terrorist resulting which the terrorist got killed on spot, who has been later on identified as Muzammil R/O Pak (A++) of LeT outfit vide PHQ Categorization list No. OPS/RWD/Criteria/2017/1229-60 Dated 15-11-2017 at S. No. 182. Arms/ammunition recovered from the possession of slain terrorist includes 01 AK-47 Rifle, 05 AK Magazines, 124 AK Rounds, 01 UBGL, 03 UBGL Rounds, 01 Pouch and 01 Magnetic Compass. Case FIR No. 92/2017 U/S 307/RPC, 7/27 A. Act stands registered in Police Station Bomai, in this regard.

In this operation S/Shri Harmeet Singh, SSP, Gh Mohammad Sheikh, ASI and Farooq Ahmad Mantoo, ASI displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 30/11/2017.

(No. 11020/19/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special DutyPART I—SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 645 No. 83-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 02-11-2017, a credible input was received about the presence of foreign terrorists in village Naristan Samboora. Accordingly, cordon was carried out jointly by the Police Awantipora, Army 50-RR and 130/180 Bn CRPF under the close supervision of Shri Mohammad Zaid, SSP Awantipora assistedby Dy. SP (PC) Pampore Raiz Ahmed and SI Javid Ahmad Lone No. EXK-983086. During search operation suspicious movement was noticed in the house of Hilal Ahmad Khanday S/O Mohammad Shaban Khanday R/O Naristan Samboora. The joint party moved towards the said house where from terrorists fired indiscriminately upon the joint team. However, the target house was closely cordoned off by the search party to evade the escape of terrorists. Owner of the house and his family members were asked to come out from the target house, As the family members were about to leave the house, the terrorist hiding inside the house fired indiscriminately upon the joint search party due to which civilian got stuck in the house. The fire was retaliated in self-defense. The hiding terrorist was asked to surrender and also to allow the family members to come out of the house which the terrorist declined. It was planned to evacuate the family members trapped inside the house first. The Joint search party comprising of Shri Raiz Ahmed-JKPS, Dy.SP (PC) Pampore, SI Javid Ahmad Lone, ASI lrshad Ahmad 346/Awt, HC Karnail Singh 776/AP 5th Bn, HC Ab. Rashid Khanday 86/Awt, Sgct. Haq Nawaz Yousuf 538/Awt, Sgct. Parvaz Ahmad 166/Awt, Ct. Saqib Rasool 653/Awt, Mohammad Rafeed 374/IRP 18th Bn, Ct. Mukhtar AhmadBhat 727/Awt, SPO Showkat Ahmad 74/SPO, SPO Kan Ahmal 287/SPO, SPO Shah Arif 654/SPO, SPO lrshad Ahmad 228/SPO, SPO Mudasir Ahmad 55/SPO, SPO Waseem Raja 189/SPO, SPO Farooq Ahmad 347/SPO, SPO Muzaffar Ahmad 292/SP0, SPO Mohd Afzal Mir 11/SPO and SPO Sameer Ahmad Dar 145/SPO entered the house premises., where from they came under heavy volume of fire. Despite that they proceeded meticulously towards the house and successfully opened the door of the room wherein the family members were trapped. All the family members ran out of the house under the cover of search party who on one hand engaged the terrorist in firing and on the other took the family members safely out of the gate. While seeing that the search party is meticulously moving towards him without caring for their lives, the hiding terrorist while trying to jump out from the house fired indiscriminately towards the search party in order to make his escape good. But the joint search party with their prompt action and without caring threat- to their lives -positioned themselves against the terrorist and killed him with accurate fire, who was identified as Badar Bai of JeM outfit (FT). Arms/ammunition recovered from the possession of slain terrorist includes 01 AK47 (damaged), 04 AK Magazines (03 damaged), 88 AK Rounds, 01 UBGL Grenade (damaged), 03 Chinese Grenade, 01 UBGL, 01 Sunglass Cover (damaged), 01 Medicine, 01 Tooth Brush, 02 Batteries Small, 01 Tactical Pouch, 01 Lip Guard and 01 Colgate. Case FIR No. 192/2017 U/S 302, 307 RPC, 7/27 A. Act stands registered in P/S Pampore, in this regard.

In this operation S/Shri Raiz Ahmed, Dy. SP and Javid Ahmad Lone, SI displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 02/11/2017.

(No. 11020/21/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No.84-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 11.10.2017, Bandipora Police has received information through reliable source that Terrorists are hiding in the Village Paribal Salamabad Hajin and these terrorists are planning to target nearby Army/Police camp. Accordingly, the input646 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 was further shared with Army 13 RR and CRPF 45 Bn. The operation was meticulously planned and during the wee hours of 11.10.2017, a joint team of Police Bandipora under the overall supervision of Sh Sheikh Zulfikar Azad- JKPS SSP Bandipora supported by Sh Tahir Amin Sheikh- JKPS 125759 SDPO Sumbal, Sgct Mohd Iffikhar Lone No. 342/Bpr and Ct Bilal Ahmad Malla No. 952/Bpr. The operational parties has used their tactical acumen to reach to the target house without getting exposed. Initially two composite squads of Army/Police were constituted for laying close and strong cordon of suspected area. One operational component under the command of Sh Mubashir Rasool —JKPS 125772 DYSP PC Hajin, Sgct Manzoor Ahmad No. 660/Bpr and Army component of 13 RR were assigned to lay cordon from North to South, while as the second component under command of Sh Gazenfer Syed No. 3007/NGO and Ct Mir lshfaq No. 3859/PW were assigned to lay cordon from other side of target house. During cordon the composite force component i.e. Police and Army has established great co ordination through mutual exchange of their respective communication wireless sets and hence acted in very synchronized and professional manner. While as, the CRPF 45 BN team and another JK Police party were assigned to lay outermost cordon in law and order mode with the instructions to not allow any civilian towards the target area, so that main target area shall not be disturbed by unruly mob and to keep this area sterile from civilian's interference during conduct of operation. As soon as cordon gets laid out, the hiding terrorists fired indiscriminately upon the operational parties. The party challenged him to surrender but he striked back with volley of fire and lobbed grenades and in the initial burst of fire/grenade by Terrorists, 02 Soliders of Army got martyred. It was a herculean task for the operational parties to evacuate safely the civilians who get trapped. Therefore, two teams were constituted for safe evacuation of civilian from the area under cordon and from the adjoining houses.

Needless to mention that, both the above volunteered operational teams stormed the target house without caring for their personnel life while establishing great co ordination with the outer team in cordon for fire control and during the ensuing close battle in which 02 Foreign/local terrorists got neutralized, who were subsequently identified as Maaz "A+" Category R/o PaK figuring at Sr No. 36 of PHQ Categorization list issued under Endstt No. Ops/Reward/Criteria/2017/915- 30 Dated 24.07.2017 and Nasrullah Mir @ Anna S/o Nazir Ahmad Mir R/O Mir Mohalla Hajin recommended for inclusion in categorization list as "A" Category vide this office letter No. CS/Cat(M)-19/2017/18916-18 Dated 09.06.2017. The slain terrorists were major challenge to the state machinery. Arms/ammunition was recovered from the encounter site are enclosed. -Case FIR No. 61/2017 U/S 302, 307, RPC, 7/27A. Act has been registered in Police Station Hajin, in this regard.

In this operation S/Shri Tahir Amin Sheikh, DySP, Mohd Iftikhar Lone, SgCT and Bilal Ahmad Malla, SgCT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 11/10/2017.

(No. 11020/22/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 85-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 14-01-2018, Police Baramulla received an information through reliable sources to the effect that a fidayeen group of terrorists equipped with heavily sophisticated weapons have infiltrated towards own side via Bhim post Uri for carrying out fidayeen attack on army/ SF's in Dulanga area. Acting on this information police party from SOG Baramulla headed by DySP (OPS) Baramulla Shri lrshad Ahmad Ahanger JKPS-125832 under the supervision of SSP Baramulla/SP (OPS) Baramulla moved towards the Dulanga Uri and a joint operations was launched with the help of 4 Madras Army and 53 Bn CRPF. After a brief discussion with the army with regard to the topography of the area, process of cordon and search operation was started. Two teams of Troops of 4 Madras Army and police personnel were constituted and first party was assigned the task for carrying search operation while another one was tasked to give cover protection to the search team. Shri Zafar Mahdi Dy. SP OPS Pattan, HC Nasir Ahmad Bhat No. 556/B, SgCt. Javid Ahmad No. -541/B, Shri lrshad Ahmad Dy.SP OPS Baramulla, Inspr. Tabraiz Ahmad SHO P/S Uri, ASI Ajaz Ahmad Malik No. 79/B, HC Muneer Ahmad No.

295/BD, HC lnderjeet Singh No. 1897/B, HC Kishore Kumar No. 367/B, SgCt. Mohd Younis No. 1597/B, SgCt. Farooq Ahmad No. 1334/B, SgCt. Amraiz Ahmad No. 890/B, SgCt. Mushtaq Ahmad No. 753/B, SgCt. Gulzar Ahmad No. 497/AP 13th Bn. SgCt. Shokat Ali No. 703/IRP 13th SgCt. Tanveer Ahmad No. 381/B, SgCt. Mohd Amin No. 797/B, SgCt. Muzaffar Ahmad No. 721/B, SgCt. Gul Zaman No. 951/B, SgCt. Shabir Ahmad No. 1026/B, SgCt. Manzoor Ahmad NO. 375/B, SgCt. Dileep Kumar No. 334/B, Ct. Manzoor Ahmad No. 1131/B, Ct. Tariq Ahmad No. 858/B, Ct. Hilal Ahmad No. 1580/B, Foll Haqeeq Ahmad No. 81/F. SPO Tariq Ahmad No. 1200/SPO, SPO Mohd Irfan No. 1227/SPO, SPO Showkat Ahmad No. 1727/SPO, SPO Shabir Ahmad No. 595/SPO, SPO lftikar Ahmad No. 1075/SPO, SPO Ashiq Nabir, 2579/SPO, SPO Rafeeb Hussain No. 1273/SPO, SPO Mohd Yaqoob No. 914/SPO, SPO Ab. Razaq No. 1208/SPO, SPO Noor Hussain No. 491/SPO, SPO Akhtar Hussain No. 950/SPO, SPO Raja Mahboob No. 1629/SPO, SPO Syed Altaf No. 167/SPO, SPO Shabir Khan No. 1220/SPO, SPO Ashiq Hussain No. 1610/SPO, SPO Gurmukh Singh No..409/SPO, SPO Sameer Hassan No. 439/SPO, SPO Arif Ramzan No. 93/SPO, SPO Barkat Shah No. 23/SPO, SPO Ranjeet Kumar No. 306/SPO, SPO Gh. Rasool No. 122/SPO, SPO Bashir Ahmad NO. 1814/SPO, and SPO Mohd Amin No. 981/SPO, volunteered themselves to be part of search and covering teams. Search operation was started under the close supervision of operational officers present on spot. While carrying search of the suspected area, all of sudden the search team came under heavy fire from the terrorists who had taken shelter inside thick bushes. The searching team was enough vigilant and remained unharmed during the attack and a meticulous strategy was chalked out by the operational officers and the location of the terrorists were marked/identified. After this, a plan was devised on spot wherein joint parties of Army and Police were placed at very close to the target site.

Needless to mention that, after this Shri Zafar Mahdi, DySP (Ops) Pattan along with ASI Ajaz Ahmad Malik, HC Nasir Ahmad Bhat No. and Sgct. Shokat Ahmad No. 13th Bn made a very daring move and crawled through thorny bushes to the target site and aimed at the terrorists hiding inside thick bushes behind a terrain. On the directions of team leader a volley of fire was fired upon the terrorists. Terrorists fired on assault party, but the assault party did not give in and remained committed, and from close range gun battle between terrorists and assault party continued till elimination of all the 04 dreaded Fidayeen terrorists. During the process explosive material attached with the body of terrorist also exploded with a big bang. Extensive search of the said area was carried out and no further movement/presence of terrorists was established and finally operation was called-off. Arms/ammunition were recovered from the possession of slain terrorists includes 04 AK Rifle (01 damaged), 19 AK Magazines (07 damaged), 480 AK Rounds (20 Damaged), 01 UBGL (Damaged), 02 Wrist Watch (damaged) and 01 Life Jacket. Case FIR No. 03/2018 U/S 307 RPC, 7/27 Arms Act stands registered in Police Station Uri, in this regard.

In this operation S/Shri Zafar Mahdi, Dy. SP, Ajaz Ahmad Malik, ASI, Nasir Ahmad Bhat, HC and Shokat Ali, SgCT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 14/01/2018.

(No. 11020/24/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 86-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for for Gallantry/ 2nd Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 05-03-2018 at about 1630 his, reliable information was received about the presence of a foreign terrorist in the house of one Ghulam Mohi-ud-din Dar S/o Ghulam Ahmad Dar R/O Mohalla Sumbal Hatiwara. The operation was planned and the cordon was established with the assistance of 50-RR, 130 and 110 Bn CRPF. Two joint search parties were constituted one headed by Shri Mohd Zaid-JKPS and another by Shri Perwaiz Ahmed-JKPS, SDPO Awantipora. Owner of the house and his family members were asked to come out from the target house. As the family members were about to leave the house, the terrorist hidden inside the house fired indiscriminately due to which the civilians got stuck in the house. The fire was retaliated in self defence. The terrorist was asked to surrender through public address system which the terrorist declined. It was planned to evacuate the family members from the house first. The first joint search party headed by Shri Mohd Zaid, SSP Awantipora alongwith ASI Ali Mohammad Rather No .& 6/A, HC Altaf Ahmad Shah No..535/Awt, SPO Akther Ali No.163/SPO, SPO Rayees Ahmad No. 102/SPO, SPO Mohd Ashraf No 48/ SPO and Ganesh Kumar No.275/SPO proceeded meticulously without caring for their lives towards the said house but while entering the premises of the house they came under heavy volume of fire. This was an extremely difficult phase of operation. The 2nd search party headed by648 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 Shri Perwaiz Ahmad-JKPS alongwith HC Bilal Ahmad No.263/Awt, Ct Amir Rasool No.734/Awt, Ct Qmar Ali No.688/Awt, Ct Pervaiz Ahmad No.784/Awt, SPO Gh Mohi-ud-din No.159/AWt, SPO Mustafa No. 182/SPO ,SPO Gh Mohi-ud-din No. 337/SPO and SPO Mohammad Irfan No. 2343/SPO kept the terrorists engaged in firing while as first joint search party successfully opened the door of the room wherein the family members were trapped. All the family members ran out of the house. While noticing that the 1st joint search party have entered the house the hiding terrorist began to fire indiscriminately by positioning himself behind the stairs then lobbed a grenade towards them in order to make his escape. However, luckily the grenade exploded without causing any damage. In the meantime, the first party noticed that the terrorist is out of bullets and is busy in changing his magazine and within a fraction of time ASI Ali Mohammad Rather No. 76/A (EXK-872402) fired upon the terrorist resulting in grievous injury to the terrorist. Then the 1st joint search party lobbed a couple of grenades towards the terrorist and in order to protect himself from grenade splinters the terrorist jumped from the window in order to make his escape good, but the 2nd joint search party headed by Shri Perwaiz Ahmad-JKPS accompanied byabovementioned officers who were already in position within a fraction of time noticed the movement of the terrorist and with the prompt action killed the terrorist. The eliminated terrorist was later on identified as Mufti Waqas R/O Pakistan of JeM outfit (recommended for A++ category vides this office letter No. CS/91/2018/5108-09 dated 06-06-2018). Arms/ammunition were recovered from the possession of slain terrorist includes 01 Pistol Chinese, 01 Pistol Magazine, 04 Pistol Rounds, 01 Knife, 01 Battery for IED (Small) and 02 Fuse. Case FIR No. 34/2018, U/S 307 RPC, 7/27 A. Act, 16, 18, 19, 20 and 38 ULA (P) Act stands registered in P/S Awantipora, in this regard.

In this operation S/Shri Mohd Zaid, SSP and Altaf Ahmad Shah, HC displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 05/03/2018.

(No. 11020/26/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No.87-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/ 2nd Bar to Police Medal for Gallantryto the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

After the killing of Abu Dujana Commander LeT outfit for South/Central Kashmir, mentors operating across had directed Abu Ismail Commander of LeT outfit to shift his base to Srinagar with the intention to carry out sensational attacks including Cop killing, hurling of grenades on the Police establishments and other important installations etc. to create panic among the peace loving people in the heart of summer capital Srinagar. This was also corroborated with intelligence inputs received from different sister agencies. In this regard the field sources of the District were alerted to generate information about his presence, besides Police component Srinagar was also geared to analyze all the related communications carefully to thwart any untoward incident in the District. On 14.09.2017 Police Srinagar received information through reliable sources to the effect that some terrorists carrying arms/ammunition are roaming in the area of Aribagh, Baghat-i-Kanipora, District Budgam (P/S Nowgam Srinagar). Immediately after getting information about the presence of terrorists in Aribagh, Baghat-i- Kaniproa Budgam, police teams of District Srinagar/District Shopian under the joint supervision of SP Shopian and SP Police Component Srinagar were constituted and directed to identify the location/hideout of terrorists and subsequently neutralize them without any collateral damage. The team of Shopian Police and Police Srinagar were succeeded in zeroing the hide, (House of Gh. Ahmad Wani S/o Mohammad Akbar Wani, Magray Mohallah, Aribagh, B.K.Pora) in which these terrorists were hiding. Before the operation was conducted, it was decided to co-opt., CRPF 29 Bn., CRPF 44 Bn. and 50 RR in order to avoid any collateral damage in the area and to conduct clean operation. All the nafri was divided into two parties. First party comprised of Police Shopian and small QRTs of 29 Bn. CRPF and 50 RR headed by SP Shopian was asked to lay the cordon of the target area from North-Western and South-Western side. The second party comprised of a team of Srinagar Police headed by SP Police Component Srinagar was asked to lay the cordon of the target house from North -Eastern and South-Eastern side, in which the terrorists were hiding and also if required make a joint intervention of the house with full coordination of other security forces.

All the parties positioned themselves according to the prepared plan. Sh. Shriram Ambarkar-IPS, SP Shopian and Sh. Javaid lqbal, SP PC Srinagar who were ln charges of the cordon parties formed small teams of Police Srinagar under the command of Sh.Azhar Rashid DySP PC Srinagar and Sh. Ashiq Hussain Tak DySP Shopian for evacuation of the inmates of adjoining houses. The teams very tactfully and bravely evacuated the inmates of the adjoining houses and shifted them to a nearby safer place in order to avoid any collateral damage. In the first instance, the two holed up terrorists were asked to surrender, which they declined totally. Instead of surrendering they opened fire on the operation parties. Immediately intervention of the house was planned and two small parties were constituted, one party comprising of Sh. lmtiyaz Ahmad Mir, DySP PC Srinagar, Sh. Azhar Rashid, DySP PC Srinagar, Inspector Shiek Munzoor Ahmad No.7559/NGO(EXK- 002160), SI Mohammad Ashraf No ARP-115646, ASI Mushtaq Ahamd No. 788/S, HC Babu Ram No. 280/AP 6th, SgCt. Ali Mohd No. 300/IRP 2nd, Ct. Mushtaq Ahmad No. 2649/S, Ct. Mohd Iqbal No. 4518/S, SPO lrshad Ahmad 118/SPO, SPO Javaid Razak No. 88/SPO, SPO Rafiq Ahmad 324/SPO, SPO Mohd Ashraf 108/SPO, SPO Farooq Ahmad 841/SPO, SPO Syed Javid Ahmad 471/SPO and adequate nafri of Police Srinagar with a small QRTs of 44 Bn. CRPF/50 RR under the command of Sh. Javaid Iqbal, SP PC Srinagar and 2nd party of District Police Shopian comprising of Sh. Ashiq Hussain Tak, DySP Shopian, SgCt. Javaid Ahmad 434/IR 7th, SgCt. Mohd Ashraf 1242/S, SgCt. Rakesh Tikoo 806/AP 7th, Ct. Mohd Ashraf 464/Spn, Ct. Ab. Ahad 1276/S, Ct. Vikram Hangloo 49111RP 19th Bn, ARP-086047, Ct.Irshad Ahmad 763/SPN, EXK-127329, SPO Feroze Ahmad 95/SPO, Aarif Ahmad 229/SPO, SPO Bilal Ahmad 42/SPO, SPO Jehangir Ahmad 213/SPO and SPO Parvez Ahmad 829/SPO of District Shopian under the command of Sh. Shriram Ambarkar-IPS, SP District Shopian with a small QRTs of 29th Bn. CRPF/50 RR. First party decided to enter the house from South-East side and 2nd party decide to enter the target house from South-West side, but the holed up terrorists lobbed grenades from a window, which caused no damage as the approaching parties were advancing tactically. Simultaneously Sh. Javaid lqbal, SP Police Component Srinagar, along with his team reached nearer to the window, from South-East side, where from the terrorists lobbed the grenades/ fired. The terrorist opened the main door of the house and started firing indiscriminately with the intention to break the cordon. At this moment Sh. Javaid Iqbal, SP PC Srinagar, Azhar Rashid DySP PC Srinagar, Inspector Manzoor Ahmad, SI Mohd Ashraf and other Security Force personnel after reaching near the target house and retaliated the fire effectively without caring for their personal lives and neutralized one terrorist and the another terrorist, who in order to save himself change the hide, escaped in other part of the said target house and opened indiscriminate fire from the South- West side window on the 2nd party to break the cordon, but the party comprising of Sh. Shriram Ambarkar IPS SP Shopian and Sh. Ashiq Hussain Tak, DySP Shopian, Ct. Vikram Hangloo No. 491/IRP 19th Bn.(ARP-086047), Ct. lrshad Ahmad 763/SPN(EXK-127329) and other Security Force personnel viz 29th Bn. CRPF/50 RR, which had already taken position near the house from South-West sides, retaliated the fire bravely and in the exchange of fire, the said terrorist also got killed. After the operation conclusion 02 killed terrorists were identified as Abu Ismail R/o PoK and Abu Qasim @ Chota Qasim @ Ali R/o Pok of LeT outfit. The elimination of both the terrorists is a very big jolt to the LeT network.

Needless to mention that, the above killed terrorist was active in the areas of South/Central Kashmir since last 03 years and was responsible for several subversive activities in these areas and killing of Police men/other Security Force personnel/Political activists, besides he was involved in weapon snatching incidents in District Shopian. It is also mentioned here that the said terrorist namely Abu Ismail was master planer and executer of attack on Shri Amar Nath-Ji Yatra vehicle at Batengo near Khanabal Chowk, in which 07 pilgrims and 32 others were injuries. The said terrorist was also master planner of attack on CRPF convey and Fidayeen attack at DPS Athawajan Panthachowk Srinagar. In the said incident 02 foreign militants were killed. Arms/ammunition was recovered from the site of encounter includes 02 AK 47 Rifles, 04 AK Magazines, 36 AK Rounds, 01 UBGL, 02 UBGL Grenades, 01 Combat Pouches, 01 Civil Jacket Black, 01 Civil P-Cap, 02 Toothpaste, 02 Toothbrush, 01 Sewing thread, 05 Safety Pin, 04 Shaving Blades, 01 Axe Signature Powder and 01 Shaving Machine. Case FIR No. 109/2017 U/S 7/25 I. A Act stands registered in Police Station Nowgam Srinagar.

In this operation S/Shri Shriram Dinkar Ambarkar, IPS, SP, Ashiq Hussain Tak, Dy. SP and Imtiyaz Ahmad Mir, DySP displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 14/09/2017.

(No. 11020/27/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 88-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 08-01-2018, SOG Budgam received a reliable input regarding the presence of a terrorist in village Patrigam in the jurisdiction of P/S Chadoora District Budgam. Subsequently, a party of SOG Budgam and party of B-Coy 53 RR proceeded towards the spot in pursuit of 'hiding terrorist who reportedly was planning to carry out terrorist activities in the said area. As the parties approached the concerned area, the cordon was laid. As the hiding terrorist noticed the forces, he started volley of fire upon them in a bid to escape, but the forces/SOG acted swiftly and retaliated, as a result the terrorist failed to escape. The house which was later identified as the house of Manzoor Ahmad Ganie S/0 Gh. Rasool Ganie R/0 Patrigam Chadoora was zeroed in, hence ensuing a gunfight. Acting swiftly, the cordon around target house was tightened strategically. Heavy exchange of fire started from both the sides, Accordingly reinforcement of Budgam Police led by SSP Budgam, Sh. Tejinder Singh IPS, ASP Budgam Sh. Mohd Majid KPS, Dy.SP (Ops) Chadoora, Sh. Gh Hassan Shiekh (KPS), Dy.SP (Ops) Budgam, Sh. Parupkar Singh (KPS) along with their escort, party of 53 RR led by Lt. Col Sh. Sandeep Rana and partyof 178 Bn CRPFled by CO, Sh. Anil Kumar Vriksh also reached the said spot. Hence 04 joint teams of Police and other SFs were formulated to retaliate and neutralize the terrorist.

The first team led by ASP Budgam Sh. Mohd Majid Malik-KPS assisted by SI Rabinder Singh I/C QRT PC Budgam along with HC Ajay Kumar 307/AP 13th BN, Sg.Ct Rouf Ahmad Zarger 582/BD (EXK-098644), Ct. Tawseef Ahmad 799/BD, SPO Showkat Ahmad Baba 488/SPO, Farooq Ahmad Dar 405/SPO and SPO Bilal Ahmad Dar 25/SPO was given the responsibility to cover the northern side of the target house, Second team jointly led by Dy.SP PC Chadoora, Sh. Gh Hassan Shiekh-KPS and SDPO Charie sharief, Sh. Farooq Ahmad No.EXJ-905842 assisted by Inspector Mohd Raffi Shah ARP986461, ASI Surjeet Singh 407/GRP-J, HC Firdous Ahmad 56/AP 13th, Ct Sameer Ahmad 1163/PI, SPO Ab Lateef Dar 346/SPO, Mohd Ashraf Bhat 83/SP0, SPO Mohd Ashraf 577/SP0 was given the responsibility to cover the rear side of the target house. Third team led by Lt. Col Sh. Sandeep Rana of 53/RR was given the responsibility to cover Eastern side of the target house. Fourth team led by CO 178 BN CRPF Sh. Anil Kumar Vriksh was given the responsibility to cover the Southern side of the target house. As the gun fight continued, terrorist hiding in the target house started targeting the security forces. But all the four teams had taken their positions strategically due to which the terrorist failed to hit any of them. The stone pelting mob was trying their best to dislocate the forces deployed and make the way for trapped terrorist to escape. After a while, terrorist came out of the target house and lobbed a grenade upon the party led by ASP Budgam in order to escape from the cordon. But keeping their nerves, the team at once pounced upon the terrorist with volley of bullets in such a way the terrorist was left with no option but to move back inside the target house. In the meantime, the terrorist came out from rear side of target house and fired indiscriminately upon the SFs deployed on that side in order to escape from the cordon. The party deployed on that side led by Dy.SP PC Chadoora, SDPO Charie sharief alongwith Inspector Mohd Raffi Shah, ASI Surjeet Singh, Ct. Sameer Ahmad, SPO Ab Lateef Dar, Mohd Ashraf Bhat, SPO Mohd Ashraf retaliated back courageously without caring fortheir personal safety and eliminated the terrorist froma close range, The killed terrorist was later identified as Abu Rehman @ Rehman Bhal R/O Pakistan of LeT ouffit. Arms/ammunition recovered from the possession of slain terrorist-include 01--AK-56 Rifle, 03 AK 56 Magazines (02 Damaged), 32 AK 56 Rounds and 01 Pouch. Case FIR No. 03/2018 U/S 307 RPC, 7/27 A. Act has been registered in Police Station Chadoora on 08-01-2018 in this regard.

In this operation Shri Rouf Ahmad Zarger, SgCT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 08/01/2018.

(No. 11020/29/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 89-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers

of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 03-08-2017, specific information received through reliable sources regarding the presence of terrorist in the village of Karloo Kanalwan, Bijbehera District Anantnag. On this information, an operation was launched by SOG AnantnagPART I—SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 651 along

with 3rd RR and 90/40 Bn. CRPF. Two teams led by Sh. Afrat Hussain, DySP Ops Anartag and Sh. Gh Mohd Bhat, DySP PC Srigufwara alongwith SI Gowhar Rashid Malla ARP-109410, HC Muddasar Hussain 608/IRP, SgCt Tanveer Ahmad 1873/A, SgCt. Murtaza Nazir 1353/A, Sgct Javid Ahmad 609/A, Const. Hamidullah 1092/A, SPO Sarmand Rashid 579/SPO, SPO Owais Ahmad 415/SPO and SPO Bilal Ahmad 312/SPO were deputed to conduct the search. During search operation terrorist hiding in the village fired indiscriminately upon search party to break the cordon. Police party retaliated the fire without caring of their precious lives, resulting one terrorist namely Yawar Ahmad Wagay (Shergujri) @ Algazi S/o Nisar Ahmad Wagay R/O Shirpora Anantnag of HM outfit got eliminated. In this regard, case FIR No. 113/2017 LES 307 RPC, 7/27 I A. Act stands registered in Police Station Bijbehara, District Anantnag.

In this operation S/Shri Gowhar Rashid Malla, SI and Muddasar Hussain, HC displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 03/08/2017.

(No. 11020/30/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 90-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the 1st Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry/ 2nd Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 30-04-2018, at about 0700 hours information was received by the then SSP Pulwama about the presence of terrorists at village Drubgam Pulwama with the task given by their mentors to carry out terrorist attacks on security establishments in District Pulwama. Accordingly, SSP Pulwama informed Addl. SP Pulwama and DySP (PC) Pulwama Sayed Zaheer Abbas Jafari (JKPS-116057). The said information was further specified by DySP Ops Pulwama, shared with 44 RR, 182/183 Bn CRPF and it was decided to lay a joint cordon of the target Place. Afterwards DySP OPS Pulwama alongwith SOG party from Police Component Pulwama headed by SI Amjad Hussain Mir EXK-109479 and 182/183 Bn of CRPF left towards village Drubgam Pulwama in order to cordon the target Place. On reaching the target location a joint cordon of Police Pulwama under the command of DySP OPS Pulwama alongwith Army and CRPF was laid.

It is to mention here that while cordoning the target area Major of 44 RR and his buddy got injured as terrorists fired upon the party so lead by the Major and his escort personnel. The Major was immediately given medical assistance and was evacuated to 44 RR Bn HORS. After the injury of Major the party there, became leaderless and at the time, DySP OPS Pulwama managed to restore the situation by heading the party. DySP Ops Pulwama covered the area where Major was injured and retaliated from that point. Terrorists on seeing the rescue party retaliating throw some grenades near the point in which various Police officials including DySP OPS Pulwama got injured. Despite of injury, DySP OPS Pulwama continued to fight back and also directed SI Amjad Hussain Mir to cover the back side of the target place and retaliate, thus leaving no room for the terrorists to escape from the cordon. The terrorists tried to escape from the back side but due to indiscriminate firing by SI Amjad Hussain Mir forced them to stay in the target house. The cordon was intensified further and firing continued to dominate the terrorists. After some time, firing stopped from the side of terrorists, DySP OPS Pulwama assisted by SI Amjad Hussain Mir without caring for their lives evacuated all the civilians who were trapped inside the target house and its adjoining houses.

Despite of the fact, those terrorists seriously injured an Army officer and his buddy during the fierce gun battle, DySP OPS Pulwama received multiple injuries. Terrorist anyway were given a chance to surrender before Police/SFs present there. They were cautioned through PA system to surrender before Police but instead they ignored the offer and kept on firing indiscriminately upon the SFs. A major strategy prepared by DySP OPS Pulwama was followed to eliminate the terrorists. 04 teams of SOG party alongwith SFs were constituted to retaliate the fire from two opposite sides so as to conclude the encounter without taking too long. One led by DySP OPS Pulwama and another led by SI Amjad Hussain Mir. Further another, 02 parties lead by SI Vikram Kundal ARP-115589 were also constituted so that they would intensify the cordon and652 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 provide cover fire for first two parties from all the sides. The officers/officials due to their presence of mind remained careful, alert at the point of uncertainty, tackled the situation bravely. Due to retaliation of fire from all the sides by approaching parties resulted in the elimination of (02) terrorists who were later identified as Sameer Ahmad Bhat @ Tiger S/o Mohammad Maqbool Bhat R/o Drubgam Pulwama and Aaqib Mushtaq Khan S/o Mushtaq Ahmad Khan R/o Rajpora Pulwama. Case FIR No. 35/2018 U/S 307, 7/27 I.A Act stands registered in Police Station Rajpora, in this regard.

In this operation S/Shri Sayed Zaheer Abbas Jafari. DySP, Amjad Hussain Mir, SI displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 30/04/2018.

(No. 11020/31/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 91-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 12.09.2018, at about 0715 hours, a truck bearing registration No. JKO3F/1476, which was coming from Jammu side, was signaled at the police naka hear Suketar falling under the jurisdiction of P/S Jhajjar Kotli. The said truck did not stop and speed away towards Udhampur. On this, the police party chased the vehicle and found that it had halted near Sai Caferia near Jhajjar Kotli Bridge.

When the police party started searching the vehicle, terrorists hiding inside the truck opened fire on the police personnel and escaped into the jungle. They left behind an AK-56, 02 pistols, 07 magazines, 04 grenades and other articles. They also opened fire on two civilians namely Ganesh Dass and Om Parkash while escaping.

Police took custody of the truck driver namely Riaz Ahmed S/o Ghulam Ahmed Nagroo Rio Hanjan Bala Pulwama and his associate namely Mohd. lqbal Rather S/o Abdul Kaliq R/o Budgam on questioning, they disclosed that they were ferrying 03 Pakistani terrorists from Jammu and Srinagar, who had now escaped in the jungle. Sensing the danger, police of Reasi and Udhampur districts were also alerted and a combing operation was launched. CRPF and Army were also requested to join the operation. An FIR No. 89/2018 U/S 307/120-B/121/122/123 RPC, 4/25/26/27 Arms Act, 16/18 Unlawful Activities Act was registered at P/S Jhajjar Kotli and investigation was taken up.

Next day on 13.09.18 SSP Reasi along with SP Katra and team went for searching the area adjacent to SMVD University. Meanwhile the team under SDPO Katra descended towards Jhajjar Nalla near Dhirti village of Kakryal. While conducting search of university area at around 11:00 am SSP Reasi received a call from team of SDPO Katra searching the Jhajjar Nalla area near Dhirti village that they had received a call from a villager in Dhirti regarding presence of terrorists in the house of one Raj Kumar S/o Sh. Muthri Ram R/o Village Dhirthi, Kakryal Katra. SSP Reasi directed them to immediately reach at the said location and Reasi police informed senior police officers regarding the development. SSP Reasi along with SP Katra immediately rushed to the spot alongwith CO CRPF 6th BN and CO CRPF 187th BN. with their respective troops and saw that whole team of SDPO Katra, SHO Katra, SHO Reasi and CRPF team had also reached the spot after climbing from Jhajjar nallah. On reaching near the said location it was observed that the crowd had started to congregate, hence immediately the public was evacuated from the vicinity of the house to the safer places to prevent any collateral damage. SSP Reasi made two teams of police officers present over there i.e. SP Katra and SHO Katra in one team and SDPO Katra and SHO Reasi in the other team and asked them to reach the house of Raj Kumar cautiously and to assess the situation on ground. The said teams moved towards the Raj Kumar's house after passing through dense maize fields. The said house was a single rectangular room with a tin roofed brick structure. The two teams cordoned the target house from two sides as due to the topography and presence of maize fields around the house it was not possible to cordon it from all sides and there was an apprehension of cross fire leading to own causalities. There was a hole in a wall of the house and to ensurePART I—SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 653 presence of terrorists inside the house the search party of police peeped inside from the said hole tactically and ensured that no hostage was held inside the house. They saw 03 terrorists sitting cautiously inside the room who got alerted and on sensing the presence of Police party started firing on police party. The police party took strategic position and retaliated the fire. Meanwhile, CRPF party had also cordoned the house from the front side at the distance of around 50/70 mtrs. The gunfight between terrorists and 02 police teams and CRPF team continued for some time. Suddenly terrorists started firing UBGL Grenades on the police and CRPF party. In this heavy UBGL firing 05 CRPF personnel including Assistant Commandant CRPF 187 Bn. namely Sh. Manoj Kumar Yadav, Deputy Commandant CRPF 6th Bn. Sh.Harshpal Singh, Ct. Abay Singh of 187 CRPF Bn, Pancham Singh of 6th CRPF Bn. and Ct. Zakir Hussain of 06th CRPF Bn. had joined the CRPF party in gun battle were injured. The said CRPF party had to momentarily move back from the encounter site to evacuate their injured officers and officials for their timely medical treatment.

Meanwhile around the house of Raj Kumar, 02 police parties carried on the gun fight with the 03 holed up terrorists, the police parties who were engaged in gun fight at this time had clear hunch that 03 holed up terrorists will use the presence of dense maize fields and heavy vegetation/jungle to their advantage for fleeing from the gun battle site and accordingly the 02 police teams chose strategic locations to stop the 03 terrorists from running away from the encounter site. Terrorists being desperate to leave the encounter site area and to reach the safety of jungle/maize fields made the last effort to run away. While running they kept firing towards the police party at about 1135 hrs. at the same time, 02 police teams comprising of Naresh Singh, SP Katra along with lnspr. Surinder Pal Singh, SHO Katra and their team and Vivek Shekhar SDPO Katra along with Inspr. Ashwani Sharma SHO Reasi and their team, as striking party immediately reacted and killed 02 terrorists on the spot and severely injured third terrorist who managed to escape into the dense maize fields. In this gun fight 02 police personnel namely SgCt. Mohd lqbal No.265/RSI and Ct. Yashpal Singh No.923/RSI received injuries in the form of bullets and splinters of Grenades fired by terrorists. Ct. Yashpal Singh (PSO of SDPO Katra) was severely injured and SDPO Katra Vivek Shekhar and SHO Reasi Ashwani Sharma braving bullets moved cautiously towards him and evacuated him by supporting him between themselves. As the third injured terrorist was trying to flee he came across the outer cordon laid down by SDPO Nagrota Sh. Mohan Sharma and his team and fired towards him as a result of which SDPO Nagrota was injured. The retaliation by the said party forced the terrorist to back off into the cordon. From his hiding place he kept on firing towards the team which was in his pursuit. During this fire Ct. Bhanu Pratap was severely injured and was lying in the pool of blood within the line of fire. Sensing the gravity of situation, SP Katra Naresh Singh and SHO Katra Surinder Pal Singh unmindful of their own safety braved the bullets and crawled upto him and evacuated him to safety. Timely brave action by Officers was instrumental in saving his life.

Subsequent to this, surviving terrorists changed his tactics and stopped firing. It became difficult to zero in his location in surrounding maize fields and heavy vegetation coupled with undulating topography of the area. To flush out the 3rd injured terrorist, team of Para 4/9 Commandos (Army), CRPF, SOG Rajouri headed by Inspr. Mohd Amin and Reasi Police party including SI Irfan, SI Suman Manhas and SI Pardeep Singh along with Jawans reinforced the existing forces on the ground and started the search of the injured terrorist. At around 4.00 pm in the evening, when the third terrorist saw the parties reaching his hiding place he fired upon them During this gun fight, 01 Officer and 02 army officials namely Major Deepak Upadhaya, Ct. Rajinder Singh and Sudhir Singh of Para 4/9 Commando received injuries. After all 03 terrorists were neutralized and their dead bodies were recovered from the encounter site and Arms & Ammunitions in their possession was also taken into custody.

It was the highest degree of professionalism and courage amid clear and persistent danger that the joint teams of Police, CRPF and Army succeeded in neutralizing all the heavily armed 03 Pak terrorists without any collateral damage in a day long operation.

Accordingly Case FIR No. 191/2018 u/s 307/121/122/123/1208 RPC,7/25/26/27/A Act, 16/18/38 UAPA Act stands registered in P/S Katra into the matter.

The whole operation was conducted without an iota of collateral damage only because of the outstanding command and control exercised by Ops. team conjugated with the display of the rarest of the rare bravery and extreme devotion to duty by them. The members of the police teams generally and especially Shri Naresh Singh ASP Katra, Shri Vivek Shekhar SDPO Katra, Shri Mohan Lal SDPO Nagrota, Inspr.Surinder Pal Singh SHO P/S Katra and Inspr. Ashwani Kumar SHO P/S Reasi saved the HOLY TOWN KATRA & SHRI MATA VAISHNO DEVI JI SHRINE from extreme danger of terror attack. Moreover, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University and Narayan Super Specialty Hospital were also very close to the encounter site and had the terrorists reached there they would have wrecked and could have taken hostage of general public/ staff/students over there and could have dictated their terms.

In this operation S/Shri Naresh Singh, Addl.SP, Vivek Shekhar, DySP, Mohan Lal, DySP, Surinder Pal Singh Insp.

and Ashwani Kumar, Insp. displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 13/09/2018.

(No. 11020/32/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)654 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

No. 92-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 24-03-2018, Police Budgam /Srinagar received information from reliable sources regarding presence of few armed terrorists in the house of one Maqsood Ahmad Khan @ Jugnoo S/0 Mohammad Maqbool Khan Rio Chak-i-Marg Arizal in the J/D of P/S Beerwah. On the basis of this information, joint operation was launched by Police Budgam, Police Srinagar, 53 RR, 178 CRPF and 0/43 CRPF. The joint teams cordoned off the area at about 2330 hours.

First team led by Addl. SP Budgam Shri Mohd Majid Malik-KPS assisted by Dy.SP PC Chadoora Sh. Aakash Kohli KPS-155781, SI Rabinder Singh I/C QRT P.C.Budgam, HC Lakhbir Singh No.1446/S, SgCt Nazir Ahmad No. 502/BD, Ct Nawaz Ahmad No.1274/BD, SPO Altaf Hussin No. 99/SPO, SPO Bashir Ahmad No.537/SPO, and SPO Farooq Ahmad No. 507/SPO was given the responsibility to cover northern side of the target house. Second team led by Parupkar Singh DySP PC Budgam & assisted by SI Rakesh Pandita No. 252/PLLEC Manzoos_Hussin No.961/S4EXK-003349), HC Shabir Ahmad No.1506/S, SgCt Javaid Ahmad No. 220/S, SPO Javid Ahmad No. 63/SPO and Showkat Ahmad No. 901/SPO was given the responsibility of covering the front side of the house near its entrance. Third Team of army party led by Maj. Abhinav No. I0- 77623K of 53 RR (Punjab) was given the responsibility to cover eastern side of the target house. Fourth team of CRPF led by Sh. Z.A. Khan 2nd I/C 178 CRPF alongwith 0/43 CRPF personnel was given the responsibility to cover the Southern side of the target house. The operation was coordinated by SSP Budgam Shri Tejinder Singh (IPS), CO 53 RR Col. Anoop Nair and Addl. SP Budgam Shri Mohd Majid Malik (KPS). After ensuring that the area has been properly cordoned off, a search party was formulated. The search party consisted of Dy.SP PC Chadoora Sh. Aakash Kohli KPS-155781, Major Abhishek of 53 RR and troops of Police Budgam/Srinagar and 53 RR. Before starting the search, it was ensured that all the inhabitants of the target house are evacuated safely. As soon as the search party moved towards the house, the terrorist hiding inside came out and fired indiscriminately in all directions. The security forces took cover ilia retaliated back effectively and during the ensuing gun battle, a terrorist namelY- Shafqat Hussin Wani S/0 Mohammad Akbar Wani R/O Wago,Ora, Tehsil Pattan District Baramulla of LeT outfit, category (a figuring at &No, 54 in the category list issued vide PHQ order under endstt. No.OPS/RWD/ Criteria/2017/1229-60 dated 15-11-2017 was neutralized. Arms/ammunition recovered from the possession of slain terrorists includes 01 A ifle, 0 A agazines, 102 AK Rounds, 01 Pouch, 01 Wireless set with antenna, 01 Torch, 01 Pull through, 03 Mobile Phones, 01 Mobile Battery, 01 Mobile Charger, 01 Aadhar Card, 01 Pillow Cover, 01 Phirin and Rs. 31,570/- Indian Currency. Case FIR No. 37/18 U/S 307 RPC, 7/27 A. Act has been registered in Polide Station Beerwah, in this regard.

In this operation Shri Manzoor Hussain Peer, HC displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 24/03/2018.

(No. 11020/33/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 93-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 23rd Sept. 2017, Police Baramulla received a specific information regarding movement of heavily armed terrorists (Fidayeen group) in and around Kalgi area of Salamabad Uri, who are planning to attack on army formation in the area. Acting on this information a joint cordon and search operation by police, army and CRPF 53 Bn was launched in the area during night hours of 23rd Sept. 2017 and the area was cordoned off. In the wee hours three separate searching parties headed by DySP Raja Majid, DySP Ruhail Mircha and DySP Nissar Ahmad assisted by Inspr. Tabraiz Ahmad, SI Khalid Fayaz 109446, ASI Aijaz Ahmad 79/B, SgCt lshaq Ahmad 427/B, SgCt Javaid Ahmad 541/B, SgCt Ganesh Dass 725/IR, SgCt Gh Mustafa 66/AWP, SgCt Mumtaz Ahmad 30/AWP SgCt Firdous Ahmad 833/B, SgCt Mukhtar Ahmad 432/B, SgCt. Amraiz Khan 890/B, SgCt. Mohd Younis 1597/B, SgCt. Firdous Ahmad 716/AWP, SgCt Gh. Hassan 865/AWP, Ct. Shahnawaz Ahmad 1188/B, Ct. Muzaffar Ahmad 1283/B, Ct. Shabir Ahmad 456/B, Ct. Ashiq Hussain 1431/B, Ct. Aijaz Ahmad 1287/B, Ct. Firdous Ahmad 1105/B, Ct, Fayaz Ahmad 1021/B, SPO Irfath Hussain 561/SPO, SPO Fayaz Ahmad 1297/SPO, SPO Abdul Khaliq 1101/SPO, SPO Ajaz Ahmad 189/SPO, SPO Amair Hussain 680/SPO, SPO Parvaiz Ahmad 1121/SPO, SPO Shabir Ahmad 990/SPO, SPO Mohd Ashraf 185/SPO, SPO Shafi Ahmad 1492/SPO, SPO Ghulam Rasool 1314/SPO, SPO Bilal Ahmad 530/SPO, SPO Tasveer Hussain 166/SPO, SPO Mohd Altaf 215/SPO, SPO S.Sher Singh 261/SPO, SPO Fayaz Ahmad 1080/SPO, SPO Shabir Ahmad 340/SPO (Awantipora), SPO Vipan Kumar 1445/SPO, SPO Gh. Nabi 111/SPO, SPO Mohd Shafi 1935/SPO, SPO Tanveer Ahmad 516/SPO, SPO Javid Ahmad 42/SPO (Spr), SPO Safeer Ahmad 323/SPO, SPO Ab. Rahim 1171/SPO, SPO Ab. Rashid 1799/SPO, SPO Aasif Ahmad 273/SPO(Spr) were constituted under the supervision of Addl. SP Baramulla Shri Shafkat Hussain KPS-017356. During search, operation party headed by Shri Raja Majid Dy.SP came to know that one of the Fidayeen terrorist has taken refuge in one of the house and has held the family members hostage. The operation party showing professional skills entered into the house and handled the hostage situation with great bravery without caring for their precious lives resulted in elimination of said terrorist without any collateral damage, besides the family members were rescued. On 24.09.2017 while search was going on Shri Shafkat Hussain, Addl. SP Baramulla found that one terrorist has taken shelter in nearby mosque. Keeping in view the sanctity of mosque and law and order sensitivity attached to it, a crack team of Police/CRPF consisting upon, Nissar Ahmad Dy.SP, SgCt Mukhtar Ahmad 432/B and SgCt Amraiz Khan 890/B headed by Shri Shafkat Hussain Addl. SP Baramulla advanced with crawling and made entry in the mosque and neutralized the terrorist without causing any damage to the mosque.

After neutralization of terrorist from mosque, the search party sensed the presence of other terrorists in nearby house, Shafkat Hussain, Addl. SP Baramulla with his party moved ahead and launched a fire fight and eliminated 02 foreign Fidayeen terrorists and operation culminated on 25.09.2017. Case FIR No.70 of 2017 under section 307 RPC, 7/27 A. Act, 15, 18 U.L.A.(P).Act has been registered in Police Station Uri, in this regard.

In this operation S/Shri Dr. Ruhail Mircha, DySP, Raja Majid Batt, DySP, Aijaz Ahmad Malik, ASI and Ishaq Ahmad Mogray SgCT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 23/09/2017.

(No. 11020/34/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 94-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry /1stBar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jammu & Kashmir Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 10/11.09.2017, acting on specific information about-group of terrorists in village Khudwani, Police Kulgam under the supervision of SSP Kulgam along with troops of 1st RR and CRPF 18th Bn laid a cordon. However, the terrorists hiding in the village tried to escape and took shelter in a school. Accodingly cordon was expanded and all the escape routes were plugged off to trap them. Operational party under the command of Shri Ajaz Ahmed Zargar Addl SP Kulgam and Aman Kumar DySP PC Hatipora alongwith their party identified the target area where terrorists have taken shelter. Accordingly the terrorists were asked to surrender but they refused to do so except one chronic OGW Arif Ahmad Shah who was accompanying the terrorists surrendered before the security forces and otherterrorist tried to escape from the spot, and fired indiscriminately upon the security forces. The area being congested was properly sealed and in the first instance all the civilians residing in adjoining areas were evacuated. Sh Ajaz Ahmed Zargar Addl SP Kulgam alongwith his buddies ASI656 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 Shahnawaz Ahmad Paddy 3656/S, SgCt Satinder Singh 532/Kgm took lead and fought head on with terrorists and engaged them in gun battle without caring for their safety. The brave officer and his buddy showed presence of mind, operational skills and abilities to fight against the menace of terror in a professional manner and neutralized both the hardcore terrorists affiliated with HM. Being a vulnerable area both from law and order and terrorism point of view, it is quite difficult to carry out such crucial and surgical operation in the area. Due to effective coordination and exemplary role of operational party consisting of SgCt Bilal Ahmad 653/IR 11th Bn ARP-012623, SgCt Mushtaq Ahmad 263/IR 3rd ARP-036732, Ct Jahangir Ahmad Ganie 6681Kgm, EXK-127655, Ct Arshid Ahmad 1076/Kgm, EXK-155944, Ct Adil Nabi Mir 1026/A EXK- 118621,SPO Rayees Ahmad 399IK, SPO Nazir Ahmad 196/K, SPO Mohd Rafiq 47/K and SPO Shabir Ahmad Dar 247/SPO(Bla), though the terrorists have good public support and vast OGW network in the area which they potentially use against security forces, especially during cordon and search operation. The cordon was laid in manner and restraint people from indulging in stone pelting to avoid any kind of damage to civilian property and life. On the other hand Shri Aman Kumar Thoker alongwith SgCt Parvinder Singh 291/IR 3rd, SgCt Mohd lqbal 276/IR 11th Bn, Arshid Ahmad 10761Kgm, EXK-155944, Ct Adil Nabi Mir 1026/A EXK-118621, SPO Showkat Ahmad 304/A, SPO Farooq Ahmad 295/SPO, SPO Mohd lqbal 61/K, SPO Mohd Ashraf 237/K, SPO Aijaz Ahmad Dar 393/K, SPO Mohd Yaqoob 358/K, SPO Mohd Maqbool 41/K handled the situation outer side of the cordoned in a professional manner. Some youth of the area tried to instigate the people with the intention to provide escape route for trapped terrorist but their ultimately these brave hearted officers/officials conduct the operation in a professional manner and eliminated two terrorists namely Dawood Ahmad Allaje_S/o Late Ab Hamid Allaie "B" category HM outfit and Sayar Ahmed Wani S/0 Gh Mohd Wani R/0 Wanpora Qaimoh Kulgam HM (B) category. Arms/ammunition recovered from the possession of slain terrorists includes 01 AK-47 Rifle, 02 AK Magazines (01 damaged), 63 AK Rounds, 01 INSAS (damaged), 01 INSAS Magazine, 60 INSAS Rounds, 01 Pistol, 01 Pistol Magazine, 02 Pistol Rounds and 02 Pouch (damaged). Case FIR No. 141/2017 U/S 302/RPC, 7127/Arms Act stands registered in P/S Kulgam, in this regard.

Needless to mention that, the elimination of these dreaded terrorist was a big blow to terror organizations. The command and control and operational skills in laying effective cordon under such circumstances were commendable which resulted into the accomplishment of the mission after a long hot pursuit of tracking down terrorist. Another peculiar feature of the operation was that Kulgam Police accomplished the mission almost exclusively on own intelligence. The valour exhibited by the officials needs to be acknowledged so as to inspire other police personnel of operational party to fight continuously against the terrorism.

In this operation S/Shri Ajaz Ahmed Zargar, SP and Satinder Singh, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 10/09/2017.

(No. 11020/35/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty

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No. 95-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/Police Medal for Gallantry (Posthumously) to the under mentioned officers of Jharkhand Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 24/12/2014 at about 19:10 pm a patrolling team comprising of 1. ASI Awadesh Kumar Jha, 2. Havildar Omprakash Chourasia, 3.No.294 Jai Prakash Singh, Constable, 4. No. 1085 Sachinder Kumar Singh, Constable, 5. 1037 Anuj Kumar Singh, Constableon a police Rakshak vehicle no 13A/7418 were coming from Bhadrakli Mandir to Itkhori P.S. On the way near Sahi pond a group of MCC cadres detonated the IEDs planted on the road as a result of which the Rakshak turned turtle and its lid i.e. opening on the root got opened. The MCC cadres sitting on the ambush started indiscriminate firing on the patrolling vehicle while targeting the police personnel. Havildar Omprakash Chourasia showed extra ordinary gallant and without caring for his life tied the toof lid tightly with his black towel and started counter firing in self defence. In this encounter Havildar Omprakash Chourasia gave supreme sacrifice and his gallant act saved the lives of his fellow mates and also saved the arms an ammunition from looting. The entire team meanwhile engaged the MCC cadres with heavy exchange of fire unless the reinforcement from Itkhori P.S came which left them with no option but to flee from the ambush site taking the advantage of darkness. In the encounter Havildar Omprakash Chourasia got Martyr and Anuj Kumar Singh, Constable, Jai Prakash Singh, Constableand Sachinder Kumar Singh, Constablewere seriously injured and ASI Awadesh Kumar Jha &No. 959 Madan Parsad Yadav, Driverwere partially injured. Hence the show of unparallel gallant, extra ordinary courage by the team involved in the encounter comprising of 1. Matyr Havildar Omprakash Chourasia 2. ASI Awadesh Kumar Jha 3. Jai Prakash Singh, Constable, 4. Sachincler Kumar Singh, Constable 5. Anuj Kumar Singh, Constableand 6. Madan Parsad Yadav, driverare recommended for P.M.G award for their extraordinary courage, gallant & courageous encounter.

In this operation S/Shri Awadhesh Kumar Jha, ASI, Late Om Prakash Chourasia, Hav, Jai Prakash Singh, CT, Sachindra Kumar, CT , Anuj Kumar Singh, CT and Madan Prasad Yadav, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 24/12/2014.

(No.11020/92/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No.96-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jharkhand Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

The present recommendation is merely an endeavor to imprint the conspicuous gallantry, resolute fighting spirit, absolute dedication and devotion to duties exhibited by nominees during fatal encounter between the police team and the heavily armed cadres of dreaded CPI (Maoist) on 08/02/2018 in an untrodden hilly area, falling within the Naudiha Bazar Police station under jurisdiction of Palamau District.

CPI (Maoist) is a banned extremist outlawed group, spread across the areas of adjacent states and known for their reign of terror. The might of this outfit is strengthened due possession of latest firearms and large cadre strength in upper base of the Junjulu hill which is surrounded with dense forest and tough undulated terrain. The general area of Junjulu forest is in complete isolation with no connectivity by either means which renders it hostile for police in want of timely reinforcement and support. In these circumstances the sequence of events could have effected serious and heavy casualty and damage to police team with loss of arms/ammunition involved in the said encounter. But police team under the cutting-edge command of Addl.S.P.(OPS), Palamau, Sri Arun Kumar Singh alongwith team of CRPF /134 Bn , IRB-03 & DAP, was not only succeeded in neutralizing one of the dreaded Maoists of outlawed CPI(Maoist) but also succeeded in arresting one injured female armed cadre and recovering a huge cache of arms, ammunitions, devices, stuffs and propaganda materials. The heroic action with courage by team under apt determination, foolproof planning and immaculate execution with tactics, leadership and professionalism of highest order laid by Sri Arun Kumar singh, Addl S.P (OPS) could save our men and arms/ ammunition from any casualty/loss. This piece of gallant episode is entirely elaborated in Naudiha Bazar P.S. Case No.05/2018 dated 09/02/2018 registered U/S 147,148,149,353,307,504,506 IPC, 25(1-A),25(1-b)A,26,27,35 of Arms Act and 10,13,16,20,23 UAP Act and 17 CLA Act.

The Superintendent of Police, Palamau, at 14:00 PM on 07/02/2018, on getting tip of information about movement of Sub-zonal commander Rakesh Bhuiyan, the dreaded maoist of banned outlawed CPI (Maoist) with 20-25 armed members658 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 around Junjulu forest and neigbouring undulated terrain with some ulterior motive. After going through discussions with officers concerned, a police team constituted under leadership of Sri Arun Kumar Singh, Addl. S.P.(Operation) Palamau, with SHO Patan P.S, SI Pramod Kr, Hay. Shanti Ram Mahto, Constable 170 Ranjeet Kumar, constable 904 Balram Das, constable 1337 Chhotelal Kr, officers and personnels of 134bn CRPF for establishing the intelligence by verification and further necessary action. Accordingly ops was launched on 07/02/18(A.N) under the leadership of Addl.S.P.(Operation) Arun Kumar Singh. Subsequently, on 2nd day of the Ops i.e on 08/02/18, the police team carefully forwarded towards Junjulu forest surrounding from western side and tactically reached till a drain at 15:00 Hrs. This place was covered by thick vegetation, undulated ground and bushes all around. Suddenly, the police team perceived the presence of few persons wearing black uniform and carrying Insas and police rifles. In no time, the OPS party took position, identified and signaled about the arm carrying members of CPI (Maoist). Once they got closer, the police team shouted giving own identification as police and suggested for surrender to armed outfit but intending to kill police team Maoists started barrage of bullets . An encounter was evident which was soon established with incessant and indiscriminate fire. The group also echoed slogans "MAOWAD JINDABAD" with gunshots. The police team still kept its nerve cool and again suggested giving laud alarm to surrender but the maoists continued firing from south and east directions. With no alternative left in their safeguard, the Addl.S.P.(Operation) with QAT commander and members of police team crawled ahead, ensured tactical position and opened counter-fire in the East and south direction. By 17:30 Hrs, the armed extremists reduced their firing rate. Thereafter, the Addl.S.P.(Operation) with his team alongwith the team led by Dy. Commandant CRPF 134 BN, proceeded in the east direction to encircle those armed maoists with intention to pressurize them for surrender. At that event , the police team was in jaws of death and were also having danger to their lives. Although it was a risky affair to take a lead during hostile firing, Finding themselves under close clutch of police party, the armed Maoists once again opened indiscriminate firing on advancing police team.They also tried to discourage the police party by start abusing Police verbally alongwith making slogans of "Maowad Jindabad.

Finally they retreated and vanished into dense jungle and hilly terrain due to onset of evening darkness.

Directing the team to continue with controlled firings in self defence, Addl.S.P.(Operation) with his buddy constable 170 Ranjeet Kumar, constable 904 Balram Das and other active members of the team, started search in area of conflict. The body of one maoist was recovered whereas one female armed maoist was found injured who during interrogation, disclosed the names of other sixteen armed maoists and also about 10-12 other unidentified members. First aid was immediately provided to the injured female maoist and subsequently she was taken to hospital for treatment and early to that the matter was reported to S.P. Palamau in details. Various arms, stuffs and propaganda materials were also recovered. After arrival of the S.D.O. Chhattarpur, B.D.O. and C.O. of Naudiha Bazar with Jaguar Team, on 09/02/18, the inquest report of dead armed maoist identified as Mahesh Bhokta @ Jitan Ganjhu @ Gardian Da was done and on search of the dead body, one 0.315 bore rifle and one magazine containing live cartridges was recovered and from nearby the dead body various arms, ammunitions and other materials whose details have been listed in the seizure list.

In continuation to this operation on dated 10/02/18, Mao Rajesh Yadav, Area comdr CPI (Maoist), arrested from vill.Tenudih (near to vill. Junjulu ) under Naudiha Bazar P.S and on his confession one .303 Police rifle with magzines, live ammunitions, explosive materials and many other items were recoverd from encounter site which is elaborated in case no 06/18 dtd 10/02/18 Naudiha Bazar P.S. In addition and consequences to this, with heroic act and sound strategy Addl.S.P.(Operation) Sri Arun Kumar Singh later on conducted successful operation in which Mao Deepak Ganjhu,SZC (05 lakh rewardee), Mao selvam, Mao Yogendra Bhuiyan, Mao Gita and Inermila were arrested while Mao Rajendra Bhuiyan surrendered before police . Mao Rakesh Bhuiyan, SZC, Mao Lallu Yadav, Mao Rubi and Mao Rinki were neutralized in police encounter. All were actively participated in ransacking of police team from the upper portion of Junjulu Hill on 08/02/2018 for which at Naudiha Bazar P.S. case No.-05/2018 and Chhattarpur P.S. Case No. 28/2018 have been registered leading to recovery of sophisticated, restricted and police looted rifle, other weapons and ammunitions, explosives and other materials which is usually carried by this armed squad of CPI (maoist).

During the operation, Shri Arun Kumar Singh, Addl.S.P (OPS), shown humanity to save an injured female armed maoist and exceptional leadership qualities blended with exemplary courage risking his own life in neutralizing the dreaded maoist before he could cause any fatality to his fellow policemen.

Shri Arun Kumar Singh, Addl. S.P, displayed a solid example of loyalty, the guts of gallant and real qualities of a leader, in keeping with the highest traditions of any police force. The act of discipline, extreme bravery, leadership of highest order and exemplary courage since beginning to the end, shown by the aforementioned nominees, established high moral of the entire police team and instilled other's confidence and deserves recognition and appreciation of the highest level.

In this operation S/Shri Arun Kumar Singh, Addl. SP, Ranjeet Kumar, CT and Balram Das, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 08/02/2018.

(No. 11020/103/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special DutyPART I—SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 659 No. 97-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jharkhand Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

This recommendation emanates from the heroic, gallant deeds of exceptional valour, firm determination self less service, magnificent leadership and high level of co-ordination displayed by the nominees. This refers to the two deadly and fierce encounter which took place on 01/02/2018, in hilly and dense forest areaof Viii: Pandra, under PS: Garu, Distt Latehar, State : Jharkhand, between the Police team and the dreaded extremists of CPI (Maoists) in which one Sub-Zonal Commander of CPI(Maoist) was killed. It is important to mention here that Latehar district of Jharkhand occupies a prominent place on the map of Maoists because of its strategic importance in, establishing their hold in Jharkhand, Bihar and Chhattisgarh and further stretching the RED CORRIDOR to have easy access in the areas where they like to operate.

On 31/01/2018 human intelligence was received regarding movement of armed group of CPR-Maoists) in Bhitar Pandra forest area, under Garu PS. Subsequently a Joint Opreation "BATHUATOLI" Was planned, including AG-3 of Jharkhand Jaguar and District Police Team consisting Sh Om Prakash Tiwati, SDPO Mahuatanr, SI ,Alok Kumar Dubey,, OC Netarhat PS and 17 other police personnel under over all command of Sh Ramendra Dy SP of AG-3 (JJ).

On 01-02-2018 at about 0300 hrs ops team left for its 'assigned area Pandra from Bathutoli (Netarhat). At 0430 hrs ops team started tactically advancing through a very steep slope, near Ghaghari falls .= Sh Ramendra Kumar was in scout group leading the force with Ct Pramod Yadav, Ct Ajit and HC Manoj, Sh Om Prakash, SDPO Mahuatanr & SI Alok Kumar Dubey, OC Netarhat were leading the police team in mid section and rear party respectively. Team was advancing in thick forest area towards Bhitar- Pandra through steep slope with high hill ranges on both the sides. Ct Pramod and HC Manoj noticed some suspicious movement on upper ridge in left side. They immediately informed the team commander .Sh Ramendra, he in turn alerted Sh Om Prakash and SI Alok Kumar Dubey to be vigilant. Suddenly heavy fire came upon the scout group, they challenged them that they are police and asked them to surrender but they returned the call with increased volume of fire. Sensing the eminent threat on security forces Sh Ramendra Kumar Sh Om Prakash and SI Alok Kumar Dubey ordered their team to retaliate With controlled fire in self defence. Dy SP Ramendra along with scout Ct Pramod Yadav, Ct Ajit and- HC Manoj opened fire on Maoists and retaliated valiantly and hold them, Sh Om Prakash and SI Alok Kumar Dubey formed a small team and started encircling the maoist from left flank and advanced in the direction of fire using the ground and whatever cover available without caring for their life. Seeing dominating police party Maoists fled the scene and disappeared taking advantage of thick forest and hilly terrain, leaving behind huge cache of ammunition, explosives and naxal propaganda literature. This encounter lasted for almost 1 hour. Once the fire was stopped from Maoists, Sh Om Prakash and Sh Ramendra ordered their troops to search the area and while sarching, one Sub-Zonal commander of Maoists, Birbal Oraon @ Laldeo Oraon s/o, Vill: Salgi Budhiya Toli, PS- Ghaghra, Distt-Gumla who was in naxal uniform with a weapon beside him was found lying in pool of blood in seriously injured condition. He was immediately administered first aid by police party andthorough search was ordered in which large no of detonators IEDs ammunition and Naxal Propoganda literature was recovered. Showing humanitarian approach towards injured naxal Sh Ramendra Kumar Dy SP and Sh Om Prakash decided to evacu, ate him. When police team advanced tactically in order to evacuate the injured extremist for timely treatment, on reaching near village Bhitar Pandra maoists ambushed them and fired upon heavily, behind the cover of civilians, with the intention to release their commander, maoist Birbal Oraon and to take away the recovered arms ammunition and explosives. Again police team re —org themselves, Om Prakash Tiwari Dy SP with his team stayed there with the injured Naxal and also gave strong retaliation to the naxals and prevent them from advancing towards them. Mean while SI Alok Kumar Dubey with his team advanced from left flank and Sh Ramendra with his Section No-3 advanced towards the naxals from right flank and moved in the direction of fire showing utter disregard to their life. Sensing the strong retaliation from the police force naxals once again flee taking the advantage of thick forest and hilly terrain.

Sh Ramendra Dy SP, Sh Om Prakash Tiwari Dy SP and SI Alok Kumar Dubey with their team fought valiantly and showed exemplary level of co-ordination and cohesion at the crunch time and infused extraordinary valour in the troops, HC Manoj and Ct Pramod fought audaciously along with their commanders and showed fearless bravery without caring for their life amid heavy firing by Maoists and gave befitting reply to their offensive act. The well co-ordinate plan perfect execution and exemplary cohesion at the time of crisis, gallant and vigorous act of the team commanders and their team lead to killing of Sub-Zonal commander of CPI (Maoist) namely Birbal Oraon @ Laldeo Oraon s/o Karma Oraon, Vill: Salgi Budhiya Toli, PS: Ghakhra. Distt: Gumla. This gallant episode is elaborated in detail in the FIR of Garu PS Case no. 02/.18 dated 01.02.18 U/S - 147/148/149/353/307 WC, 25(1-b)a/25(1-A)/26/27 arms act, 3/4 Exp act, 10/13/16/20 UAP act and 17 CLA act. It is pertinent to mention here that there were total 12 cases registered against him in different police stations and Govt of Jharkhand had announced TWO LACS CASH reward to arrest him alive or dead.

In the above mentioned encounter with their professional acumen, immaculate planning heroic and conspicuous gallant action and aggressive leadership Sh Ramendra Kumar Dy SP, SI Alok Kumar Dubey, OC Netarhat PS, and with display of great level of courage and team spirit by HC Manoj Kumar Ct Pramod Yadav, set very high standards of service aims, dedication bravery and loyalty which will remain an ideal for every force personnel.

In this operation S/Shri Ramendra Kumar, DySP, Om Prakash Tiwary, DySP, Alok Kumar Dubey, SI, Pramod Yadav, CT and Manoj Kumar, HC displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 01/02/2018.

(No. 11020/106/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 98-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jharkhand Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded.

This recommendation emanates from the gallant deeds, firm determination, selfless service, magnificent leadership and high level of coordination displayed by the nominees. This refers to the deadly and fierce encounter which took place on 24th Sep 2017 in general hilly and dense forest area of Toniya kolatupu toli, Girda 0.P, P.S.- Bano between the police team and the dreaded extremists of PLFI in which a two lakh rewardee of Jharkhand Govt. and area commander Radha Nayak with two other Dasta members (Lalu Lohra and Manish Surin) were killed.

On 23'd September, 2017 around midnight, an intelligence was received by SP Simdega regarding presence of some of most fierce leaders and members of banned PLFI group in area of Pangur, Kamlabera and Toniya kolatupu toli. Based on the input 05 parties were formed including 04 cut offs and 01 main raiding party which was led by D.C. Brijesh Kumar Yadav, Jharkhand Jaguar. At about 11:00 Hrs, when assault team reached near general forest area of Toniya kolatupu toli, Bano, some extremists emerged near scout party suddenly and taking cover of trees started firing with automatic weapon on scout party in which constable Rinku Kumar, constable Ritul Kumar and D.C. Brijesh Kumar were present. Immediately, Sh. Brijesh Kumar, D.C. cum AG commander ordered his men to take position against naxalite and challenged the extremists to stop firing and surrender themselves. Regardless of the caution extremists kept on firing on police party. On this the police party started firing in self defense. Meanwhile Sh. Brijesh Kumar Yadav, D.C. along with constable, Ritul Kumar and constable, Rinku Kumar endangering their lives crawled towards left side where naxalite had taken position and started firing on them.

Meanwhile, S.I John Murmu and S.I. Bihari Marandi without caring of his own life crawled towards right side and started firing on the extremists. As soon as the firing started, they challenged the extremists from their side. On seeing the attack from other side naxalites started firing indiscrimately on them. With all exemplary courage and leadership. SI John Murmu ordered their men S.I. Bihari Marandi, HC Radheshyam and constable, Gun Bahadur Thapa to take position and they endangering their lives crawled towards right side in where naxalites has taken position and stated firing on them. S.I. John Murmu, S.I. Bihari Marandi, HC, Radheshyam and constable, Gun Bahadur Thapa accompanied with constable Jiwan Kispotta showed enormous courage and exemplary leadership in encircling the extremists and opened fire on them. The exchange of fire continued up to 20-25 minutes.

After that a search operation was carried out in general area in which 03 dead bodies, heavy cache up arms and ammunitions and logistic items as per seizure memo were recovered.

Team Commander and their team led to elimination of area commander of PLFI Radha Nayak rewardee of 2 lakh from Jharkhand Govt. and mastermind of many barbaric acts in the area and two other Dasta members Lalu Lohra and Manish Surin.

In this operation S/Shri Brijesh Kumar Yadav, DySP, John Murmu ,SI, Bihari Marandi, SI, Radhe Shyam Prasad, HC, Ritul Kumar, CT, Rinku Kumar Yadav, CT, Jeevan Kispotta, CT and Gun Bahadur Thapa, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 24/09/2017.

(No. 11020/107/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No.99-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Jharkhand Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded.

This recommendation emerges from the chivalrous deeds, audacious actions, exceptional valour, firm determination professional acumen and leadership and great degree of co-operation and coordination displayed by the nominees. This refers to the deadly and fierce encounter which took place on 04/04/2018, in "Kauwakhoh Nala" in Bhargaon-Sikid Forest area under PS: Herhanj, Distt Latehar. State : Jharkhand, between the Police team and the dreaded extremists of CPI (Maoists) in which 5 Sub Zonal Commanders of CPI (Maoist) were killed. It is apposite to mention here that Latehar district of Jharkhand is strategically very important area for the CPI(Maoist) to establish their hold in Jharkhand. Bihar and Chhatisgarh. North Latehar is the region which provides corridor of movement towards Bihar to the Naxal leaders who move to and fro to conduct meetings and plan their future strategies against the Government and the Security Forces.

On 03/04/2018 human int. as well technical int. was received regarding movement of armed group of CPI(Maoists) in the bordering forest area of Manika-Herhanj-Latehar PS. Subsequently an Ops "Khirakhand" was launched including 2 teams of CoBRA 203 teams of 11 Bn CRPF, Assault Group No. 3 & 34 of Jharkhand Jaguar and police team consisting Vipul Pandey, Addl SP (Ops) Latehar, SI Sanoj Cahudhary, OC Herhanj PS, 1 ASI and 4 CTs. All the six teams were assigned 6 different areas to search and neutralize the naxals. Team-5, consisting AG-3 of Jharkhand Jaguar under command of Sh Ramendra Dy SP, team of 6 police personnel including SI Sanoj Chaudhary, OC Herhanj, under overall command of Sh Vipul Pandey, Addl SP Ops, was assigned to search the Nala b/w Sikid PF and Bhargaon PF. Ops Team moved on 03-04- 18 at 1900 hrs for its assigned area and reached Sikid forest area around 2300 hrs and took harbor in forest area and team tactically advanced around 0600 hrs on 04-04-2018 for searching and combing their earmarked area as planned. After advancing upto certain distance SI Snaoj suggested team commander Sh Vipul Pandey to split the team in two parts for better domination and search. Sh Vipul Pandey, discussed it with Sh Ramendra, AG-3 Commander and it was decided to move section no 3 of AG, under command of ASI Abhishesh Kumar on the mid ridge and remaining team to search the nala. While on the move Vipul Pandey noticed 2-3 freshly dug earth (chuanri) to collect water, in the nala. He immediately alerted the troops and directed them to be more vigilant, team kept moving tactically, after few minutes again sound of interference in the radio set was heard by Vipul Pandey, he again alerted the troops and asked AG commander Sh Ramendra to alert the section moving in mid ridge. Around 0700 hrs when team was tactically moving in the East direction all of sudden heavy volley of fire came on the section no-3 moving on the mid ridge as well as on the team moving in the nala. Fire was indiscriminate and targeted on the police force. Sh Vipul Pandey, SI Sanoj Chaudhary and Sh Ramendra challenged the armed Maoists to surrender but the call was returned with increased volume of fire. Thereafter the whole party was ordered to retaliate with directional but controlled fire. Maoists were firing heavily on the section-3 which was moving on mid ridge but ASI Abhishesh Kumar Ct. Manoj Kumar Bawari and Ct Mithun Kumar Ravi who were in scout retaliated valiantly and hold662 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I—SEC. 1 them. Sh. Vipul Pandey sensing that Maoists are trying to encircle section no-3, small team instantly consisting AG-3 commandar Sh Ramendra, SI Sanoj Chaudhary, Ct Anoj Ojha,Ct. Manish Rajwar, Ct Naresh Tigga, Ct Chotu Yadav and moved towards Section no-3 whichwas pindown by the heavy volume of fire by the naxals. This party advanced towards height employing fire and move tactics and by making the best use of the ground, during their movement few naxals who had taken defensive position in the dry nala, going downwards, fired heavily on them. But with grit cohesiveness and great determination and without caring for their lives, this team kept advancing with whatever cover available to support Section no-3 which was under heavy fire. Soon this party encircled the Maoists from right flank and gave befitting reply and strong retaliation. This courageous action of the troops pushed Maoists to defensive mode. Mean while a group of naxals advanced towards nala with heavy fire and with the intention to break into the troops taken defensive position in the nala and who were giving support to the troops moving upwards. But SI Arun Kumar . who was alert and vigilant sensed their intention and he along with Ct Indrajeet Tewari, and CT.Shyamanand Prasad took position strategically and realigned them to launch counteroffensive attack against the naxals who were firing heavily and advancing towards them but this courageous & determined team of SI Arun, showing utter disregard to their life, gave them strong retaliation, and hold the naxals from advancing inspite of being at less advantageous position i. e. at relatively lesser height and forced them to withdraw back. Since Maoists were on back put this was the best time to launch counter attack, Sh Vipul Pandey, Sh Ramendra, SI Sanoj Chaudhary re-org the troops and lead the hot pursuit of the fleeing Maoists, showing fearless bravery in the face of intimidating fire and utter disregard to their personal safety. They employed heavy firepower, and advanced tactically inside jungle adopting fire and move tactics. Finally sensing the extreme aggression and counter offensive approach of the troops, the Maoists fled taking cover of the thick forest, leaving behind huge cache of explosive arms and ammunition. Encounter lasted for almost 03 hours. Sh Vipul Pandey, Sh Ramendra, SI Arun Kumar SI Sanoj Chaudhary and ASI Abhishesh Kumar fought valiantly and showed exemplary level of co. ordination and cohesion at the crunch time and infused extraordinary valour in the troops. Ct Anoj Ojha Ct Manish Rajwar, Ct Naresh Tigga, Ct Indrajeet Tewari, Ct Chotu Yadav, Ct Shyamanand Prasad, Ct Manoj Kumar Bawari and Ct Mithun Kumar Ravi fought audaciously along with their commanders and showed fearless bravery without caring for their life amid heavy firing by Maoists and gave befittingreply to their offensive act. The well co-ordinate plan perfect execution and exemplary cohesion at the time of crisis, gallant and vigorous act of the team commanders and their team lead to killing of DREADED SUB ZONAL COMMANDERS OF KOYAL SHANKH ZONE OF CPI (MAOISTS) namely:—

Beside above sophisticated weapons like AK 47, INSAS rifle and large cache of ammunition were also recovered. These dreaded extremist had created atmosphere of terror and had strong hold it North Latehar region. Their death lead to establishment of peace and tranquility in North Latehar an support base of Maoists in that region is almost finished. Thus the absence of leadership, forced toi maoist commanders, to merge North Latehar Sub Zone (of Koyal Shankh Zone) with the Madhyl Zone Committee of CPI (Maoists), which is evident from the seized naxal literature regarding 4thmeeting of Koyal Shankh Zone Committee. Later one more Sub-Zonal Commander Birender Shankar, who had got injured in that encounter also surrendered. This gallant episode is elaborated( in detail in the FIR of Herhanj PS Case No. 14/18 dated 04.04.18 U/S 147/148/149/342/353/307 IPC25(1-a)(1-b) a/26/27/35 Arms act, 10/13/18/20 UAP act &7(i)(ii) CLA act. It is pertinent to mention here that Out of five dreaded extremists who were killed in the fierce encounter, on threat extremists, Govt. of Jharkhand had announced FIVE LACS CASH reward (on each) to arrest alive or dead.

In the above mentioned encounter with their gallant action aggressive leadership and team spirit SI Arun (AG-3 of Jharkhand Jaguar), SI Sanoj Chaoudhary, OC Herahanj PS, ASI Abhishesh (AG-3 of Jharkhand Jaguar), CT Manish Rajwar, CT Anoj Kumar Ojha , CT Naresh Tigga, CT Inderajeet Tiwari, CT Shyamanand Prasad Gupta, CT Chotu Yadav, CT Mithun Kumar Ravi and CT Manoj Kumar Bauri set very high standards of service aims and leadership which will remain an ideal for every force personnel.

In this operation S/Shri Arun Kumar, SI, Sanoj Kumar Choudhary, SI, Abhishek Kumar, ASI, Manish Rajwar, CT, Anoj Kumar Ojha, CT, Naresh Tigga, CT, Indrajit Tiwari , CT, Shyamanand Prasad Gupta, CT, Chotu Yadav, CT,Manoj Kumar Bawri CT and Mithun Kumar Ravi, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 04/04/2018.

(No.11020/108/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special DutyPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 663 No. 100-Pres/2020.—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Maharashtra Police: —

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

PSI Mithu Namdev Jagdale, NPC/2628 Surpat Wadde, PC/5954 Ashish Maroti Halami, all of them were posted at special operation squad (C-60) Gadchiroli and PC/4190 Vinod Chaitram Raut and PC/4216 Nandkumar Agre were posted at QRT Pendhari.

On 24.07.2016 PSI Mithu Namdev Jagdale alongwith party commander Surpat Wadde and 19 policemen left Gadchiroli and reached AOP Karwafa for conducting anti naxal operation. The above police party was joined by another police party i.e. QRT Pendhari and Karwafa and both the parties then reached AOP Gatta (Fu) on 27.07.2016.

The naxalites of CPI (Maoist) groups had called for observing Band in the district from 28th July to 3rd August. Every year during this period, the naxalites call band in order to disturb law and order and to start their violent activity.

Based on reliable information received by PSI Jagdale the police parties set out from Gatta (Fu) on 28.07/2016 to Bhimpur forest for conducting anti naxal operation. After reaching the forest of Bhimpur 3 groups were formed. One group consisting of 9 men was headed by party commander NPC/2628 Surpat Wadde, another group consisting of 11 policemen including PC/5954 Ashish Halami was headed by PSI Mithu Jagdale. The 3rd group consisting of 17 policemen including PC/4190 Vinod Raut, PC/4216 Nandkumar Agre was headed by HC/161 Krishna Shende, party commander of QRT pendhari. These 3 groups then started carrying out anti naxal operation in 3 different directions in the forest of Bhimpur.

At around 10.30 hr, the police party headed by party commander Surpat Wadde was suddenly attacked by armed naxalites by open fire. The police party at once took position in the forest and noticed 30 to 40 naxalites in olive green uniform were firing at them. The police party convinced that the attackers belonged to the CPI (Maoist) group. Hence, PSI Mithu Jagdale made an appeal to surrender, but the naxalites overlooked the appeal made by the police and continued to fire at the police party. The naxalites were heard calling themselves aloud "Indira, Ramesh, Nilesh, do not let the policemen, go away kill them and snatch away their arms and ammunition. Mahesh Jyoti, Arti, you all cover the police party from left and ensure that they are killed" In the meantime, the naxalites attacked PSI Jagdale and his staff by opening rapid fire. Also, 3 to 4 members belonging to party commander Surpat Wadde were being targeted by the naxalites. So for providing protection to these policemen, PSI Jagdale along with some members of his party risking their own life into grave danger and simultaneously opened controlled fire at the direction of attacking naxalites. In such a fearful situation the policemen were retaliating to the naxalites by putting their own life to great degree of risk as the retaliation by all the 3 police party went on increasing the naxalites had no other alternative but to run into the deep forest. The firing between the naxalites and the police party lasted for half an hour.

Thereafter, PSI Mithu Jagdale informed all police personnel parties to assemble at a place cautiously. He then carried out an assessment of the status of the police personnel involved in the encounter. It was transpired that PC/5488 Kailash Gedam, PC/4219 Nandkumar Agre and PSI Jagdale had sustained injuries while taking position during the firing and the rest of the personnel were safe and unharmed.

Thereafter, the police personnel conducted a search of the place of incident following proper SOPs during the search operation, a woman naxalite in a olive green uniform was found lying unconscious on the ground with 12 bore gun, 20 empty cartridge of 12 bore gun, 3. Pieces of detonator, 2 empty cases of 12 bore gun, etc. beside her.

The police party collected the following ammunition Viz. 356 rounds of AKM rifle, 65 rounds of SLR, 2 Cells of UBGL, further the QRT, Pendhari had collected 229 rounds of AKM rifle, 140 rounds of SLR. Along with the material seized from the place of incident. The police party reached AOP Gatta (fu) at around 07.00 hrs. The body of woman naxalites was immediately taken to Primary Health Center at Gatta (fu). But since the Medical Officer was not available. The body of woman naxalite was shifted to General Hospital, Gadchiroli for treatment.

Later on the dead body of woman naxalite was identified as Indira alias Meshi Sannu Korami, Dalam Member of Platoon No. 3, Age 21, years. at. Karem, Taluka Etapalli, District Gadchiroli.

The above anti naxal operation in a forest of Bhimpur was launched during the Naxal Shahid Week wherein the police personnel displayed outstanding courage and dedication towards their duties by exposing their life to grave risk and completed the mission successfully. The extra ordinary courage displayed by PSI Mithu Namdev Jagdale alongwith Surpat Wadde, Ashish Halami of Vinod Raut and Nandkumar Agre has laid to the elimination of naxalites and seizure of arms and ammunition.

In this operation S/Shri Mithu Namdev Jagdale, SI, Surpat Bawaji Wadde, Naik, Ashish Maroti Halami, PC, Vinod Chaitram Raut, PC and Nandkumar Uttareshwar Agre, PC displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 28/07/2016.

(No. 11020/100/2017-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 101-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Maharashtra Police: -

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

Dr. MCV Maheswar Reddy, Additional operations had received credible information that a group of about 100- 120 naxals; heavily armed with automatic weapons have crossed from Maraknar village to Fulnar village on the night of 31.10.2017. Based on interrogation of surrendered naxals, probable areas of their presence was chalked out and accordingly operation was launched. The probable area of operation was koparshi jungle area; which is part of Abuz Maad and bordering area of Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh. This area is considered as Naxal strong area and liberated zone by Naxals, as all top leadership of Gadchiroli Naxals stays in the area. Also, in most of previous operations in this area; police personnel has suffered losses. On 22nd march 2015, police party ventured in this area after many years and was ambushed by naxal; 2 policemen attained martyrdom in the event. And again on 3rd May 2017 another attempt was made but again police party was ambushed and 3 policemen suffered severe injuries. Another party sent by Mine protected vehicle(MPV) for reinforcement came under IED attack and 1 policemen attained martyrdom and 21 policemen were badly injured. So in order to boost morale of force, operational success in this area was badly required. Hence after careful planning and waiting for right opportunity, this operation was ordered by Dr. Abhinav Deshmukh IPS, SP Gadchiroli to be personally led by Dr. MCV Maheswar Reddy, IPS Additional SP operations.

On night of 1/11/2017 under the leadership of the Addl. S.P. Dr. MCV Maheswar Reddy operation was launched. It comprised Dy.S.P. Shri. Sameersinh Salve, API Rajesh Khandave, PSI Ajit Patil, PSI Rankhamb, Motiram Madavi party, Rakesh Hichami party, Nagesh Tekam party, Sanjay Wachami party and QRT Bhamragad. All groups were set out in private vehicles for conducting anti-naxal operation in the forest area; around the villages Poyar kothi, Fulnar and Koparshi under the jurisdiction of AOP Kothi under Bhamragad Sub-division. They reached the forest of Arewada at about 11 pm in night and then discarded the vehicles. Operation teams walked whole night and at about 5 in the morning reached Gundurvvahi jungle area. Thereafter, they formed 3 teams under the leadership of Shri. Dr. MCV Maheswar Reddy, DySP Shri. Sameersinh Salve and ASI Motiram Madavi and started search of jungle area. It was decided all 3 teams will keep in contact through wireless VHF communication and in time of need will help out each other and automatically work as cutoff party. On night of 2nd November all 3 teams completed their area of search and came together on a predetermined spot and rested there. Again on early hours of 3rd November 2017 operation was again started. Three teams were again formed for searching the area.

On centre is team lead by Dr. Maheswar reddy, right side is team lead by Sameer salve and on left side was team lead by ASI Motiram madavi. At about 11.30 AM, left side team came in contact with naxals and firing has started. NPC/2187 Avinash kamble, PC/5231 Vasant Atram and PC/5575 Hamit Dongre were at the front of the partyPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 665 and showed extraordinary courage and opened controlled fire upon naxals. Avinash Dongre used his UBGL very effectively and due to his exact fire of UBGL cells, the naxals moved away from that spot and party remained safe due to their combined attack on naxals. While the firing by Motiram Madavi team was going on the instruction of Dr. MCV Maheswar Reddy, Addl. S.P. (Ops.), remaining 2 teams started moving towards the firing spot from different directions. The groups headed by Dr. MCV Maheswar Reddy and Sameersinh Salve, encounter with naxals and came under fire from Naxals. Accordingly, police team also retaliated in self defense,and opened fire in the direction of naxalites. While retaliating to the naxals Sameersinh Salve was asked to reach the spot of firing and reinforce Motiram party. Dr. MCV Maheswar Reddy team took a detour to protect the route of which retreating police teams.

Information through local villagers reached till naxals that police had protected retreating route and so naxal could not ambush the retreating police teams which they did in previous occasions. Meanwhile 2 teams on spot had started search of area and found one Naxal male dead body, SLR rifle, 1 carbine rifle, 1 air rifle and huge cache of naxal material and literature was recovered. Both the teams are ordered to wrap up all seized material and return without wasting any time. Any delay by police, naxal will get time to plan and execute ambush. Both the teams started to retreat from the spot. As the tactically sound ambush with high plateform to shoot at retreating parties was covered by Dr. Maheswar Reddy team, naxal approached an area which not suitable for ambush and fired on retreating parties. The splinters of the bullet hit the right leg of commando named PC/3117 Sainath Murkute. It was necessary to move from the spot quickly. Sameersinh Salve team and Motiram team rapidly opened fire to retaliate the naxals. In the meanwhile, ASI/1331 Motiram Madavi also got injured on the spot.

Dr. MCV Maheswar Reddy, personally took active role in the battle against Naxalites and ensured that nobody in the party was left vulnerable to attack. He gathered all the commanders and instructed them about the next plan to move safely from the spot. He actively led from the front and guided the parties to the safer area. On night of 3rd November 2017, all teams rested in koparshi jungle. All teams walked till safe area carrying Naxal dead body for 10 kms in spite of not having any food for about 24 hours. Next day morning, all teams crossed paralkota river and reached kothi AOP, from where naxal dead body, seized material and injured persons were airlifted to Gadchiroli HQ.

Police parties seized following material from the spot :—

1)SLR Rifle - 1, 2) Carbine Rifle - 1, 3) Air Gun - 1,4) SLR Rifle Magazine - 1,5) SLR Rifle live rounds - 08, 6) WTs - 3, 7) Solar plates - 5, 8) Naxal Dangri - 2, 9) Naxal Pittos - 3, 10) Radio - 1, 11) WT charger - 2, 12) red color Horse-1 and Medicine Box along with other literature etc. In addition to these, they recovered one dead body of a intelligence department (SID) gave report that one more Nazal injured in the encounter died after 1 day.

Successful Koparshi encounter was result of meticulous planning and extraordinary courage to protect each other was showed by Addl. SP Dr. MCV Maheswar Reddy, DySP(Ops) Shri Sameersingh Salve, NPC/2187 Avinsh Kamble, PC/5231 Vasant Atram and PC/5575 Hamit Dongre. All 5 policemen, throughout the operation had exhibited their tactical skills and ensured minimum casualty on the part of the police force. After this success operations this area which was known as liberated zone of naxals will no more be out of bounds for police and administration. People of this area will remember this landmark encounter for breaking this naxal myth of the liberated zone. It is pertinent to note that Police did not explore till they attended contact with Naxals. With out extract intelligence input, Naxal location was zeroed down by use of tactics like following track of footprints of Naxals. This encounter is in true sense a surgical strike of Police on Naxals.

In this operation S/Shri Dr. MCV Maheswar Reddy, IPS, Addl. SP, Sameersinh Dwarkojirao Salve, DSP, Avinash Ashok Kamble, NPC, Vasant Buchhaya Atram, PC and Hamit Vinod Dongare, PC displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 02/11/2017.

(No. 11020/44/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 102-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/ 4th Bar to the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Manipur Police: -

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

The Kuki National Army (India), in short KNA(I), a hill based terrorist outfit led by one NekjangHaokip, assisted by one HemininthangHaokip of Phoipi village and others were terrorizing the villagers of Leimatak area, Govt. Contractors, Officials of NHPC and businessmen in Loktak project area of Bishnupur and Churachandpur District of Manipur. The outfit indulged in prejudicial activities like, extortion, kidnapping for ransom. In the recent past, they kidnapped two persons namely, Rajesh Singh contractors of NHPC and his driver Daniel Pamei and demanded a huge sum of money from their families.

In order to rescue the kidnapped persons, contain and neutralized the activities of KNA(I) led by Nekjang and HemminthangHaokip, a special team of Commando was detailed for the task by the Superintendent of Police, Bishnupur District, under the command Inspt. Lunthang Vaiphei assisted by (i) ASI. Ph. Sunil Singh, (ii) Hav.No.1207765 Md. Samadur Rahaman (iii) Hav.No.1299017 Samuel Kamei (iv) Hav.No.1299078 S. Hemanta Singh of CDO-BPR. Very soon, the Commando team collected enough information about their modus operandi, movement and possible hide outs of the outfit possession of sophisticated weapons.

On received of the information, the special team initiated and a bigger operational group,comprising 06 teams from Bishnupur and another 02 teams from Imphal West district was requisitioned for the special operation. The teams from Imphal West district were earmarked to cordon off the area and accordingly deployed immediately. The special team led by lnsp. Lunthang vaiphei and teams from Bishnupur started the search operation from different sides.

While the special team led b y Inspt. LunthangVaiphei was at the junc tion of the Loilamkot village, One DI-TATA Bearing Reg. MN04-A1655came from Churachandpur side t owards Nalon vil lage, On seeing the police, two youths jumped out from the vehicle and opened fire towards the police and tried to flee awa y to the forest. The police personnel immediately ducked to the gr ound and lie flat for some times but keenl y observed the movement of the two youth. After regaining their senses, they immediately gave a hot chase to t he fleeing youths with intermittent firing in the air to scare them. After chasing them f or about 300 metres in the thick Forest, one youth was corner near a big rock and was asked b y Hav. Md. Samadur Rahaman t o surrender, instead he fired a few rounds towards him. Having no alternative, Insp. Lunthang Vaiphei told Samadur Rahman to continue engaging him verbally to surrender and he himself risking their lives, went over crawling from behind covering onl y b y the big rock between them. On reaching the rock, he su ddenl y overpowered him from behind b y grasping his rifle and pressing him on the gr ound. Hav. Samadur Rahman also swiftly r an after him and snatched his rifle. The other youth escaped in the jungle.

On the spot verification, he identified himself as HemminthangHaokipHemin (28) yrs s/o Manglal Haokip of Phoipi village, who is an active cadre of KUKI NATIONAL ARMY (INDIA) in short KNA(I). The arm was checked and found to be an AK-56 Rifle with magazine loaded with five live rounds of ammunition.

On throughout search of the area, one white bag mark as 'anello' containing 5(five) Gelatin sticks, 24(twenty-four) Detonator, 1(one) Safety fuse wire of one metre long and one MI-5A mobile handset with one AIRTEL SIM card with mobile No. 7085376965 as disclosed by him was found and 3(three) empty case of AK ammunition was recover near the bag and seized by making a formal seizure memo.

It refers to case F.I.R. No.25(10)2018 u/s 400 IPC,25(1-C) Arms Act & 5 Expl. Subs. Act. Of Loktak Police Station.

In the operation, all the officers and men played all vital role, however, the following role of the officer and man of special team of Bishnupur Commando mentioned below exhibited great courage, dedication, dogged determination and professional skill under adverse condition in utter disregard of their personal safety. Had the Police officer of Bishnupur Commando not acted with determination and great courage, the hardcore KNA(I) cadre would not have been arrestted in the thick forest rather, he could have killed our officer and men. The officer and men of Bishnupur Commando had not only exhibited extra-ordinary courage. but also brought laurels to the Police Department. Therefore, in recognition of their outstanding courage, extreme devotion to duty and conspicuous act of gallantry, the following officers are recommended for the award of Police Medal for Gallantry which they deserves.

In this operation S/Shri B.Lunthang Vaiphei, Insp. and Md. Samadur Rahaman, Hav. displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 26/10/2018.

(No. 11020/96/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special DutyPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 667 No. 103-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Odisha Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 04.11.2018 afternoon SP, Malkangiri received an information from credible source that a group of out lawed CPI (Maoist) cadres of Kalimela Dalam were moving around the Populur forest area under Populur G.P. of Kalimela PS limit. The (Maoist) group was conducting camps and meetings in and around the Populur forest area and propagating subversive feeling amongst the local tribal and thereby trying to wage war against the state. On receiving the information, Sri Jagmohan Meena, IPS, SP, Malkangiri launched one operation of two SOG teams under the leadership of SI (A) Laxmikanta Nayak and SI (A) Gagan Bihari Nayak and teams proceeded to Populur forest area for conducting a search operation in that area. The operation party reached Populur forest area around 2 am in the night. While combing operation in the area was going on, on 05.11.2018 at about 6 AM, the party could see in the morning lights that an armed group of people numbering 12 to 15 including some female members, some of them wearing olive green colour dress holding weapons were camping near a hamlet in the forest. The police party got confirmed that they were members of the banned CPI (Maoist) group. Then immediately the entire party divided into 4 groups namely (1) left cordon, (2) right cordon, (3) Main firing group, (4) Assault and carry group. The main firing group was leaded by SI (A) Gagan Bihari Nayak, assault and carry group was leaded by Havildar Krushna Alok Behera. Thereafter the suspected naxals were asked in high pitch of tone to surrender but in vain. Again, they were told to surrender but this time naxals started indiscriminate firing aiming towards police party. They also lobbed grenades with the intention to kill and also blasted I.E.Ds to inflict huge casualties on the police team. Due to their sudden attack and lobbing of grenades & I.E.D. blast, some police personnel sustained splinter injuries on their body. Finding no other alternative to save their lives, the police party took tactical position. As per the tactics and plan all the groups immediately started crawling, approached to strategic locations for counter action against the Maoists group irrespective of the indiscriminate firing by the maoist groups upon the police party. Both the left cordon and right cordon party took their positions to restrict the escape of the Maoists and after that main firing group and assault and carry group started firing upon the maoist group and started controlled fire in self-defence. Process of exchange of fire between the armed cadres of banned CPI (Maoist) and the police party continued for about one hour. While firing was going on, intimation over satellite phone was sent to S.P., Malkangiri for sending a reinforcement to search the area and to respond any counter attack. Thereafter, when firing stopped from CPI (Maoist) cadres, police waited for an ,hour..and .then search operation was carried. During search of the area, the police party found five dead bodies were lying on the ground. The police party cautiously approach towards the lying down persons and found them to be dead bodies of 02 female cadre maoists and 03 male cadre maoists with gunshot injuries having SLR rifle-02 nos, INSAS rifle-01 no, .303 rifle-01 no, SLR Magazine- 06 nos, INSAS Magazine-02 nos, Broken INSAS Megazine-01 no, SLR ball ammuniation-111 rounds, INSAS ball ammuniation-33 rounds,.303 ball ammuniation-35 rounds, H.E. Hand Grenade-03 nos, Detonator-12 nos (connected with wires), Detonator-01 no (without wire), 01 tiffin bomb/claymore mine, electric wire, Maoist literature, daily use articles in their possession. Kit bags were also lying by the side of the dead bodies. Police also recovered some other articles like maoist literature from the spot. After completion of search operation the police party tactically retreated from the spot.

All the four members willfully became part of the cordon groups though they knew that their lives would be at stake for that. The cordon parties firstly moved to take dominating positions before firing started from police side. While crawling along with other groups in the midst of firing from Maoists' side, they could have been martyred being exposed. In the furtherance of operation, though they sustained splinter injuries but still carried out the orders. They rose to the occasion and, though in the process they have endangered their lives by coming in open. It was indeed a gallant action because bullets fired by the Maoist might have targeted them but they risked their lives unhesitatingly and our party was able to get success.

In this operation S/Shri Gagan Bihari Nayak, SI, Krushnalok Behra, Hav., Murali Manohar Dash, CT, Maheshwar Dhakad, CT, Manohar Bhumia, CT, Siba Prasad Nayak, CT, Bhabani Shankar Patli, CT, Arjuna Chandra Kurami, CT, Binaya Kumar Mishra, CT and Rajesh Kumar Dewan, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 05/11/2018.

(No.11020/195/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No.104-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/1st Bar to the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Odisha Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 11.03.2019 acting upon a credible intelligence input on the activities of CPI (Maoist) in the dense reserve forest area of Nakudiparha. Lengeramaha, Dendarpatta, Janagarha, Rampadar, Balimusti and Dapakia under Tumudibandha PS, of Kandhamal district an intensive combing operation was launched consisting of three assault teams of SOG At No. 13, 32 and DVF Kandhamal. When the Police search team was searching the jungle area, on 13.03.2019 near about 08.00 AM insurgents who were hiding, taking the advantage of hilly terrain and dense jungle resorted to sudden unprovoked heavy firing from automatic weapons and tried to mount flanking attack, making the Police team susceptible to enemy fire from two fronts. Six members of Police team suffered grievous injuries. The Police team under the leadership of S.I(A) Rajendra Choudhury retaliated valiantly despite numerical disadvantages and severe terrain limitations. Shri Choudhury along with two commandos namely, C/2066 Ganesh Dharua & C/379 Padmanava Ray charged the enemy in a very risky frontal attack braving heavy fire and forced the insurgents to retreat. Hav. Sukhiram Rana led another small unit of two commandos namely C/582 Rabindra Kumar Paramanik & C/313 Madan Mohan Pradhan and countered the flanking attack by launching a tactical offensive, despite severe risk of being detached from the main Police team. Due to the valor of assault team the Maoist could not resist and started fleeing from the location by taking covering fire from their team members. The leader and the team members rose to the occasion when it was most needed and acted bravely in such manner that not only the numerical superior and tactically better placed enemy had to retreat but the Police team could inflict heavy casualty on them with little collateral damage. The successful operation led to the death of one Maoist cadre named Loke Kabasi of BGN division on whom the Govt. of Odisha had declared a reward of Rs. 1,00,000/- (One Lakh).

The leader as well as the above mentioned Commandos have displayed great degree of courage and determination in facing the enemy and did not care for their personal safety on the line of duty. During the process, they had exposed themselves to enemy fire several times, some of them received injuries yet that had not deterred them from discharging their duty. Their fearless action not only ensured safety of the Police team from a surprise attack by the enemy but also confirmed the success of the operation.

In this operation S/Shri Rajendra Choudhury, SI, Sukhi Ram Rana, Hav, Ganesh Dharua, Commando, Rabindra Kumar Parmanik, Commando, Padmanav Ray, Commando and Madan Mohan Pradhan, Commando displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 13/03/2019.

(No. 11020/207/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special DutyPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 669 No. 105-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry\1st Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Punjab Police:—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

A secret inf ormation was received that Har ji nder Singh @ Vick y Gounder, Prem Singh @ Prema Lahor i ya alongwith their acc omplice were hiding in the area of Distric t Fazilka, Abohar, along t he bor der of Raja sthan-Punjab. It is pertinent to mention here t hat Vick y Gounder and Prema Laohri ya were notor ious gangsters and on the most wa nted list of Punjab an d Rajasthan and carrie d a rewar d on their hea ds. The y were involved in se nsa tiona l jailbreak of Maximum Securit y.Jail, Nabha District Patiala in t he year 2 016, in which master mi nd Prema Lah ori ya al ongwith his others 14 hardc or e criminals, heavil y armed with weapons attac ked the Maximu m sec urity jail in br oad da y- ligh t and managed to flee 06 ter r orists/gangster s incl uding Vick y Gounder. Aft er fleeing fr om jail, Vic ky Gounder and Prema Lahori ya alongwith their gang members had create d terr or in t he state s of Punja b, Ra jasthan and Har yana as t he y started their daring criminal activities of car jac king, extor tion, kidnappings and murder s etc. In April 20 17 Vicky Gounder killed three members of his rival gang in Gur daspur. These gangsters without fear of l aw ope nl y issued t hreats to the government/police officials on social media. Vick y Gounder and Prema Lahori ya were involved in more than doze n crimina l case s that include murder, attempt to murder, extortion, dac oit y, etc i n Punjab, Rajast han and Har yana. Acting on the inf or mation, Inspector Bikramjit Singh (Now DSP) along with police team of Or ganized Crime Contr ol Unit (OCCU), Punjab, reached Abohar and launched an op erati on to track a nd arrest t he above mentioned ga n gst er s. The c or r ob or ati on of tech ni cal a n d f ield i np uts f u rt her i ndic ate d t hat Vic k y G oun der al o n g w ith his a cc om plice s wa s hiding i n the farm house of La khwinder Singh @ Lakha, which is located at village Pakki along the Gang Canal (Rajasthan). The information was shared with Sh. Gurmeet Singh Chauhan, IPS, AIG OC CU an d Sh. Sa ndee p G oe l, P P S, AIG, Intel l i gence , P un jab: T he fa r m h ou se of said La k hwi n der @ La kha was c or d o ne d an d ra id wa s c on d uc ted b y the tea ms u nder the s uper vi si on and le d b y S hr i Gurmeet Singh Chauhan, IPS, AIG, OCCU. He along with Inspector Bikramjit Singh (Now DSP) entered the farm house without fearing for their lives and appealed to Harjinder Singh @Vicky Gounder and his accomplices to surrender. Meanwhile, Vicky Gounder along with his two accomplices challenged the Police party and came out of a room of farm house and fired at the police officials with the intention to kill. Despite being warned several times, these criminals did not surrender and continued to fire indiscriminately at the police party. The bullets fired by the criminals hit two police personnel, namely, SI/LR Balvinder Singh No. 362/PTA (now SI) and ASI Kirpal Singh No. 1250/PTL (now SI/LR) who entered in the farm house without fearing for their lives with the raiding parties. It is pertinent to mention here that warning shots were fired in the air by the police party to persuade the criminals to surrender, but in vain. Notwithstanding, the criminals continued to fire on the police party. Sh Gurmeet Singh Chauhan, IPS, AIG, OCCU and Inspector Bikramjit Singh (now DSP) who were leading the Police parties, entered the farm house along with their raiding teams while gunshots were being fired on the Police officials. Both the officers bravely and intelligently crawled forward towards the criminals at the grave risk to their lives and without caring for their personal safety, returned fire from their weapons in self defence. Consequently, Vicky Gounder and one of his accomplice Sawinder Singh got injured and fell down on the ground. The two were overpowered by the police team. However, Vicky Gounder died on the spot and the other accomplice was injured. In the meanwhile, one of the criminals managed to scale the wall of the farm house and jumped outside and fired on the covering team, deployed outside the farm house under the supervision of Sh. Sandeep Goel, PPS, AIG, Intelligence, who fired in self defence. The criminal fell down and died on the spot. This criminal was later identified as Prema Lahoriya, a notorious gangster who was wanted in several heinous criminal cases. In this police action the criminals Harjinder Singh @ Vicky Gounder s/o Mahal Singh caste Jat Sikh r/o Sarawan Bodla, P.S. Kabarwal district Sri Mukatsar Sahib and his accomplice Prema Lahoria both A category gangsters in Punjab were killed. The injured criminal and the injured Police OCCU were rushed to Civil Hospital, Abohar, where the third gangster also succumbed to his injuries. During the search of site, huge quantity of live and vacant cartridges along with weapons used in commission in crime had been recovered. Details of which has been mentioned in the seizure memo separately.

In this above mentioned police action, Sh Gurmeet Singh Chauhan, IPS, AIG, OCCU, Inspector Bikramjit Singh (now DSP), SI/LR Balvinder Singh (now SI) and ASI Kirpal Singh (now SI/LR) had shown670 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I —SEC. 1 exemplary courage, boldness, presence of mind and bravery in the discharge of their duty, without caring for their own lives, are recommended for President's Police Medal for Gallantry in case F.I.R. No. 26 dated 27.01.2018, u/s 307, 332, 353, 186,216, 225, 120-B IPC and 3,25,27 of Arms. Act PS Hindumalkot, distt. Ganganagar (Rajasthan).

In this operation S/Shri Gurmeet Singh Chauhan, IPS, AIG, Bikramjit Singh Brar, Insp., Balvinder Singh, SI(LR) and Kripal Singh, ASI(LR) displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 26/01/2018.

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 106-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Border Security Force (BSF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On the intervening night of 20/21 Feb, 2017, No. 97254325 CT(Now HC) Santosh Kumar and No. 98009265 Const Chandrappa Lamani were detailed for night sentry duty at Patrol Base (PB) No. 02 and 03 of FDL 507 (AIOS) of 163 Bn BSF. At about 2100 hrs, Const Chandrappa L deployed at PB No. 03 observed suspicious movement of 01 unidentified person with a rucksack. Sensing the gravity of the situation, Const Chandrappa L immediately alerted Const (Now HC) Santosh kumar, Sentry at PB No. 02. Simultaneously, Const Chandrappa L also challenged the intruder. While challenged, the intruder immediately took position and started firing towards own troops at PB No. 03. BSF troops also retaliated. Const Chandrappa L displayed high level of battle acumen & professionalism and promptly brought down effective fire on the intruder/militant with his personal weapon. Meanwhile, other troops deployed at PB No. 3 also started firing at the said militant. Due to the pin-pointed retaliation by the troops, the said militant shifted his position and moved backwards to take position behind the stony bolders near the AIOS and continued firing towards PB No. 03. In the meantime, another militant came from forward slope of the POK side and started firing at own troops. Around this time, a group of another 3/4 militants who had possibly taken position at approx. 30-40 Mtrs from the AIOS on POK side also opened fire of automatics with apparent intention to provide cover fire to the two militants with whom the exchange of fire was going on, in order to assist in their escape. The militants continued firing heavily towards own troops by using automatics, including AK47 Rifles and UBGL/Hand Grenades. In retaliation both Const (Now HC) Santosh Kumar (at PB No. 02) and Const Chandrappa L (at PB No. 3) displayed exemplary courage and battle prudence relentlessly engaging the militants and not allowing them to escape.

Effective retaliation by both Const Chandrappa L and Const (Now HC) Santosh Kumar resulted in killing of one of the militants and grievous injuries to 2-3 others. During the search of the area in the morning, blood trails of 2-3 injured militants were noticed moving away towards LC from the incident site. On 21 Feb' 2017 immediately after the first light, search and mopping up operation in the area was launched under the close supervision of Senior Commanders. The dead body of the killed militant was found stuck up with the AIOS alongwith AK 47 and during further search of the area huge quantity of war like stores were recovered. Later, one IED was also found strapped on the body of slain militant.

During the entire operation, Const Chandrappa L and Const (Now HC) Santosh Kumar 163 Bn displayed tremendous courage and battle prudence under direct and heavy militant firing, which led to the neutralization of 01 Fidayeen militant of LeT Tanzim and also caused grievous injuries to 2-3 others.

In this operation S/Shri Santosh Kumar, HC and Chandrappa Lamani, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 21/02/2017.

No. (11020/82/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special DutyPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 671 No. 107-Pres/2020.—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry (Posthumously) to the under mentioned officers of Border Security Force (BSF):—

Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 02 Nov. 2017 at about 0800 hrs, Zero line patrolling/Area maintenance party consisting of 01 Officer, 03 SOs and 11 ORs of BOP Manguchak, 173 Bn BSF (deployed on Indo-Pak International Boundary) including No. 120805206 Const Tapan Mondal (as member of patrol party) went ahead of the Border Fence to carry out Zero Line Patrolling and Area maintenance in the area corresponding to BP No. 135 to 136 which falls in front of Fwd duty point No. NJ 941. Const Tapan Mondal was detailed to perform the Scout duty/Guard of the Zero Line Patrol/Area maintenance party. At about 0930 hrs, while the party was carrying out area maintenance, two bursts of UMG were fired from Pak Post Peer Bunker on own party. As a result, Const Tapan Mondal who was deployed on the forward line close to the IB sustained bullet injury on his right shoulder. Despite being seriously wounded, with scant regard to his personal safety, Const Tapan Mondal displayed combat audacity and exemplary courage under trying conditions and promptly alerted his fellowmen/party members to immediately take cover and move to safer place. Meanwhile, after taking necessary safety precautions, the entire party including injured Const Tapan Mondal moved tactically to the own side of the Border Fence and the injured Const was immediately evacuated to 166 MH, Satwari Jammu after administering necessary First Aid, where the On Duty Doctor checked and declared him dead at about 1100 hrs. After the safe evacuation of the injured Const, heavy retaliatory fire was brought down on enemy positions.

Const Tapan Mondal displayed tremendous sense of camaraderie and commitment towards duty in an extremely hostile situation and despite being grievously wounded, promptly alerted his fellowmen to take cover and move to safer place to avoid further casualty to own party. He made supreme sacrifice in the line of duty on the International Boundary.

In this operation Late Shri Tapan Mondal, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 02/11/2017.

(No.11020/123/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 108-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry (Posthumously) to the under mentioned officers of Border Security Force (BSF):—

Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 14th May 2018, No. 112546919 Const Devendra Singh alongwith No. 881613933 HC Sakai Dev Pandit and No. 110411415 Const Ajeet Singh was deployed for Naka duty at Fwd Duty point No. 938 in AoR of BOP Manguchak of 173 Bn BSF, deployed on the lndo-Pa k International Boundary. At about 1423 hrs, the alert Naka party observed suspicious movement of 3-4 persons on HHTI installed at the Duty point. The said movement was observed in the dead ground area close to the IB near BP No. 138. While further tracking the suspicious movement, 01 Para Bomb of 51 mm Mor was fired in the direction to illuminate the area so as to correctly locate the movement and also to engage the possible target effectively. Simultaneously, Const Devendra Singh, with scant regard to his personal safety, also fired 3-4 bursts of 7.62 mm LMG in the direction of suspected movement. In response, a long burst of flat trajectory weapon was brought down on Fwd Duty point No. 938 from the place where the suspicious movement was noticed which was again promptly retaliated by Const Devendra Singh.

Later at about 1500 hrs, the said movement was once again observed (through the HHTI) near the Pak Fwd Bundh close to IB on Pak side; on which Const Devendra Singh brought down heavy fire in the direction of the suspected militants. The same was heavily retaliated from the Pak side and the exchange of fire continued intermittently for some time. Meanwhile, movement of the suspected militants was continuously tracked on the HHTI. During the exchange of fire, pin point & accurate firing by Const Devendra Singh from the loophole of the Fwd Duty point No. 938 successfully prevented a definite forced infiltration attempt. Meanwhile, at about 1501hrs, during the continued intermittent exchange of fire, a long burst of UMG entered through the loophole of fwd duty point No. 938 and hit Const Devendra Singh on his left eye. However, despite being grievously injured, Const Devendra Singh kept on672 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I —SEC. 1 firing from his LMG in the direction of the militants and also alerted his fellowmen. As the firing subsided, he was promptly evacuated to 166 MH Satwari, Jammu after administering necessary first aid, where the on duty Doctor examined and declared him brought dead at about 0504 hrs.

Const Devendra Singh displayed exemplary courage and high degree of battle audacity in bringing down effective fire on the militants and thereby successfully foiled a definite forced infiltration attempt by the Pak based militants. However, in the process Const Devendra Singh made supreme sacrifice while fighting the enemy on the International Boundary for the cause of National Security.

In this operation Late Shri Devendra Singh, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 14/05/2018.

(No. 11020/125/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 109-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry (Posthumously) to the under mentioned officers of Border Security Force (BSF):—

Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On the intervening night of 14/15 Sept 2017, No. 052542888 Const Brijendra Bahadur Singh alongwith No. 901099031 Const A Nizam (Party Commander) and No. 102541492 Const Vipin Kumar was deployed at Fwd Duty point No. NJ 575 for night Naka duty in AoR of BOP Chinaz of 192 Bn BSF from 1418 hrs to 1506 hrs. The said duty point being located in close proximity to the IB as well as surrounded by Pak Fwd bundh from almost three sides, is considered as highly sensitive & vulnerable Duty point. At about 1520 hrs, forward Morchas of Pak BOP Khanoor suddenly started unprovoked firing by use of flat trajectory weapons targeting Fwd Duty points of BOP Chinaz including at the Duty point No. NJ 575. Anticipating the ill intentions of the enemy, Const Brijendra Bahadur Singh, without caring for his personal safety, promptly encouraged his fellowmen i.e Const A Nizam and Const Vipin Kumar to retaliate the enemy fire. Accordingly, Const A Nizam and Const Vipin Kumar immediately retaliated to the enemy fire without caring for their personal safety and in the process pinned down the forward enemy positions. However, the enemy realizing the effective fire, after some time, started heavy volume of fire targeting Duty point No. NJ 575. In the process of heavy exchange of fire, a few bullets entered through the loop hole of the said duty point and hit Const Brijendra Bahadur Singh on left side abdomen through the gap of front & rear BP plates of his BP Jacket. As a result, he fell down on the ground. However, despite being grievously wounded, the valiant Borderman with indomitable spirit could not be overawed or overwhelmed and thereby encouraged his fellowmen to retaliate to the enemy fire in hard hitting manner. Accordingly, his fellowmen deployed at the said duty point retaliated to the enemy fire in befitting manner. Simultaneously, the Coy HQ was informed and Const Brijendra Bahadur Singh was immediately evacuated to BOP Chinaz and further to GMCH, Jammu after administering necessary First aid, where Duty Doctor declared him brought dead at about 1502 hrs.

Const. Brijendra Bahadur Singh, with his will to fight to the hilt & indomitable spirit, displayed tremendous courage and battle grit under fierce enemy fire and in the process laid down his life for the motherland while being deployed on a highly sensitive duty point on Active Duty in close proximity to the enemy positions.

In this operation Late Shri Brijendra Bahadur Singh, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 15/09/2017.

(No. 11020/126/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special DutyPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 673 No. 110-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/Police Medal for Gallantry (Posthumously) to the under mentioned officers of Border Security Force (BSF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 03 June 2018, No. 872545472 ASI Sat Narayan Yadav of 92 Bn BSF alongwith No. 890011580 HC Vijay Karan Singh and No. 124529890 Const Vijay Kurnar Pandey of 33 Bn BSF was detailed for Naka duty at Fwd Duty point No. NJ 30 of BOP Chakphagwari 33 Bn BSF, District- Jammu (J&K), deployed on the lndo-Pak International Boundary. As per duty allocation, Const Vijay Kumar Pandey was on Sentry Duty from 030001 hrs to 0303 hrs. At about 0115 hrs, suddenly 02 single (Sniper) shots were fired from Pakistan side on Fwd duty point No. 30 and 32 of BOP Chakphagwari of 33 Bn BSF, out of which one bullet entering through the loop hole hit Const Vijay Kumar Pandey on his head, resultantly, he fell down on the ground in unconscious state. On hearing the sound of fire, ASI Sat Narayan Yadav (Naka Comdr) took stock of the overall situation and immediately alerted and directed his fellowman HC Vijay Karan Singh to retaliate to the adversary fire and himself, showing tremendous grit & courage, promptly rushed towards the injured Const Vijay Kumar Pandey in order to rescue him. In the meantime, again a burst of automatic weapon fire came from Pak side and entering through the loop hole hit ASI Sat Narayan Yadav on the right side of his chest. Resultantly, he also fell down on the ground in unconscious condition. At that time, HC Vijay Karan Singh who was inside the said Duty Point, with scant regard to his personal safety, promptly retaliated to the enemy fire by firing 20 rounds from 7.62 mm LMG so as to avoid any further loss to BSF personnel as well as to prevent any possible infiltration into Indian territory. Simultaneously, he also informed the matter to the Post Comdr and further to Coy Comdr. In the meantime, Pakistan side continued with heavy firing & shelling by use of flat & high trajectory weapons incl HMGs, UMGs, 60 mm & 82 mm Mortars and targeted all the Fwd Duty points/B0P5 and adjoining bordering villages in the AoR of 33 Bn. In response, own troops also retaliated to the adversary fire in befitting manner by use of 7.62 mm MMG, AGL and 51 mm Mor. Meanwhile, as the intensity of fire was reduced, injured ASI Sat Narayan Yadav and Const Vijay Kumar Pandey were evacuated to PHC Pargwal after administering necessary first aid, where the on duty doctor examined both and declared them brought dead at about 0330 hrs.

Late ASI Sat Narayan Yadav of 92 Bn and No. 124529890 Late Const Vijay Kumar Pandey of 33 Bn were performing duties on the forward most tier of Border Protection grid close to the IB in an extremely sensitive area and under the direct threat of enemy fire. Both of them displayed highest level of commitment towards duties and laid down their lives while defending the motherland.

HC Vijay Karan Singh of 33 Bn, who was also deployed at the same Duty point, displayed tremendous battle prudence & combat audacity under the continued enemy firing. While immediately taking control of the situation, he effectively retaliated to the enemy fire so as to prevent further loss/damage as well as to ward-off any possible infiltration into Indian Territory.

In this operation Late Shri Sat Narayan Yadav, ASI, Late Shri Vijay Kumar Pandey, CT and Shri Vijay Karan Singh, HC displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 03/06/2018.

(No. 11020/127/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 111-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry (Posthumously) to the under mentioned officers of Border Security Force (BSF):—

Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 16.10.2017, at about 0140 hrs, Shri Dipak Kumar Mandal, 2IC/Offg Comdt, 145 Bn BSF was informed about accident of a BSF Vehicle near Sonamura. The Officer immediately rushed to the spot alongwith Ct/Dvr Prem Singh and Ct B Chandrakant. Enroute, he observed 25-30 Smugglers/ANEs attempting smuggling by pushing 15-20 Cattles to Bangladesh side. On seeing this, the Officer immediately stopped his vehicle, got down and challenged the Smugglers/ANEs. In turn, Smugglers/ANEs started pushing the cattles towards Bangladesh. The Officer assessed the overall situation and without wasting time, directed Ct/Dvr Prem and Ct B Chandrakant to catch hold of the nearby Cattles. The Smugglers/ANEs were in possession of stones/bricks/machetes/sharpedged weapons and they encircled Shri Dipak Kumar Mandal. The Smugglers/ANEs also called their accomplices in two vehicles and started stone pelting on BSF party. Shri Dipak Kumar Mandal, with scant regard to his personal safety, stood firmly against them and tried to engage them till arrival of reinforcement from nearby BOP Belaredappa.

Shri Dipak Kumar Mandal, displaying exemplary courage, bravely countered the Smugglers/ANEs and forced them to withdraw from their nefarious intentions without caring for his life. Smugglers/ANEs sensing their helplessness retaliated through their inhuman act by hitting Shri Dipak Kumar Mandal, 2IC/Offg Comdt, 145 Bn BSF repeatedly with their vehicle 'Bolero Pickup' with intention to run over him. Inspite of sensing the danger, the Officer, despite continuous threat to his life; didn't give up and boldly faced the situation in order to thwart that smuggling attempt. Then, the Smugglers/ANEs conspired and hit Shri Dipak Kumar Mandell with another 'Bolero pickup' at very high speed with intention to kill him. Resultantly, Shri Dipak Kumar Mandal fell down on the road and sustained multiple grievous injuries on his head/body. Ct Chandrakant also fired 04, rounds from his personal weapon in defence. Meanwhile, reinforcement under lnspr Joiraj Kocher, Offg Coy Comdr reached at the spot and took control of the situation.

On 20.10.2017 at 1135 hrs, Shri Dipak Kumar Mandal, 2IC/Offg Comdt attained martyrdom and BSF lost one brave Officer, who, by sheer dint of extraordinary courage, valiantly fought with the Smugglers/ANEs, while serving his Nation with exemplary professionalism and loyalty towards his motherland and set an example of unparalleled gallant action coupled with high standard of leadership. This not only brought good name to the Battalion but also to the Border Security Force.

In this operation Late Shri Dipak Kumar Mondal, 2IC displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 16/10/2017.

(No.11020/128/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 112-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officer of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF): -

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

Observing the days of National importance in the Kashmir Valley brings new challenges to the Security Forces as the anti-national forces make all efforts to disrupt the celebrations. The celebration of Independence Day 2016, turned out to be more challenging due to the highly volatile and vulnerable Law & Order situation in the Valley in the aftermath of the killing of a "Hizbul Mujahedeen" Commander by SFs. To ward off disruptions and thwart the nefarious designs of militants, Srinagar city was kept under strict vigil.

On 15/08/2016, at about 0800 hours, terrorists, holed up in a building near Nowhatta Chowk, Srinagar, opened indiscriminate fire upon the troops of 28 Bn deployed there and a fierce encounter ensued. On getting the information, troops from nearby CRPF formations rushed towards the incident site and cordoned off the area. Commanders on the ground, analysed the situation and with a counter-attack plan, moved towards the area where the terrorists were holed up. No sooner had Sh Atul Karwal, IPS, IG Srinagar (Now ADG) received the information than he directed Valley QAT of CRPF U/C Sh Naresh Kumar, AC to reach the incident site and augment the counter-attack. Quickly, he also joined the troops and took over the command of the operation.

During the ensuing gun-battle, two jawans got hit by bullets and required immediate evacuation. Acting promptly, Sh Atul Karwal, without disturbing the troops engaged in the ongoing battle, rushed towardsPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 675 the injured personnel and amid the heavy firing, evacuated the injured troops from the killing zone with the support of his escort. After evacuating the injured, he located the position of militants, analysed the situation and chalked out a plan to neutralise the threat.

He directed Sh. Rajeev Kumar Commandant 28 Bn and Sh. Pramod Kumar Commandant 49 Bn to cover the target building from the flanks, while he along with Valley QAT, decided to take position in a building in front of the target house. This building overlooked the position of the terrorists but was across an exposed area. Though he could have chosen to coordinate the operation from the safe confines of his armoured vehicle, he chose to lead the assault team personally. Sh Karwal exited his BP Gypsy and along with the Valley QAT team, braved the volley of bullets to move tactically towards this building. The terrorists saw this movement and opened massive fire on them, but taking cover of parked vehicles and other BP vehicles, they managed to reach the building unscathed.

Once they entered the building, they saw there were civilians stranded in the house. Sh Atul Karwal directed his troops to evacuate the civilians first, to prevent any collateral damage. Meanwhile, the flanking teams kept engaging the militants and injured one of them. However, during the exchange of fire, one bullet hit Sh. Pramod Kumar, Commandant and he attained martyrdom; a big setback for the troops. Surmounting their great loss, troops kept on fighting against the terrorists.

Meanwhile, after evacuating the civilians, Sh. Atul Karwal along with Valley QAT took position in the building in front of the target house. However, before they could aim at the militants, the terrorists noticed their presence and opened a barrage of fire towards them. But Sh Karwal and the troops had taken tactical positions at the windows and were now prepared to take on the terrorists. Holding their nerves, they retaliated the attack, with a volley of fire on to the terrorists. A fierce encounter ensued between the troops of Valley OAT under the command of Sh. Karwal and the terrorists. Firing from flat trajectory weapons was not proving effective due to the strong built quality of the target building and hence the gun battle was getting prolonged. Sensing that militants may escape from the site, Sh Atul Karwal directed Valley OAT troops to fire from UBGL on the terrorist's position. Displaying their sharp professional acumen, Valley OAT troops fired UBGL rounds on the target house, into the windows from where fire was emanating, under the guidance of their commander. The tactics worked as the terrorist's fire stopped after some time.

Thereafter Sh Atul Karwal and Commanders of SOG/JKP assessed the situation and decided to launch a final assault by room intervention. Accordingly, a joint search team from Valley QAT and SOG J&K Police was formed for the purpose. The joint team, ignoring the impending threat to their lives, tactically entered the building and came out with the dead bodies of two foreign militants, without any collateral damage.

During the operation, troops, led by Sh Atul Karwal, IPS, IG Srinagar displayed unparalleled valour with utmost devotion and dedication towards the assigned task in adverse conditions. They accomplished the task quickly, efficiently and effectively. Displaying the true characteristic of leadership, Sh Atul Karwal had chosen to face the same danger as expected of his troops and physically led them from the front in the most challenging conditions, ensuring complete professionalism and attainment of the objective. His unrelenting resolve, dedication and display of courage in this critical situation brought wide acclaim to CRPF.

In this operation Shri Atul Karwal, IPS, IG displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 15/08/2016.

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 113-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF): -

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On the basis of an input received about movement of an armed group of CPI(Maoist) under leadership of Rakesh Bhuiyan (Sub-Zonal Commander of 'Madhya Zone' BJSAC and 05 Lakh Rewardee) in general area of Bisaipur, Tarudag and Malang Pahar under P.S.-Chattarpur, Distt-Palamu (Jharkhand), special Ops planned under command Sh. Rajender Singh (AC). On 26/02/2018, one team of F/134 Bn moved out for special Ops. After de-bussing near Village Bisaipur, team advanced tactically on foot through forest and hilly terrain. Scout near Malanga Pahad at 0810 Hrs noticed some noises/suspicious activity in the north direction, Sensing grave probable danger ahead, the commander immediately alerted the team and along with his buddy moved tactically for verifying the suspicious movement. When the teams were advancing, suddenly heavy fire came from the front left side upon the team with automatic weapons. The Team immediately understood that they have been attacked by armed Maoists. Instantly, Comdr gave orders to Sections 2 & 3 to cover both flanks by advancing toward east and north-east direction tactically.

The front section challenged the CPI(Maoist) to surrender with their arms, but this could not affect the volley of fire coming from the Maoist's side. Armed Maoists sensed something scary and started indiscriminate firing upon the advancing buddy pairs. Despite imminent threat in front and on seeing that there was no way out for keeping the safety of own team and their weapons, Comdr decided to retaliate equivalently and directed his team to retaliate in self-defence and give a befitting reply to the armed Maoists. The exchange of fire commenced from both sides and continued without any sign of attrition. He directed front buddy pairs to immediately provide cover fire from their position and Comdr with his buddy crawled towards a nearby small tree, took the position and targeted the Maoist from a close quarter. Later on, the dead body of hardcore Maoist Rakesh Bhuiyan was recovered from this patch. The Comdr along with his buddy HC(GD) Praveen Kumar and CT(GD) Sanjeev Ranjan Singh continued his advance in front, ignoring the heavy fire and despite insufficient cover available, fired from different positions to make effective retaliatory fire.

Section No. 2. Sensing the urgency of assisting the team at the right flank, Comder launched a right flank attack with his buddy along with CT(GD) S. Balachandra Reddy and HC (GD) Umesh Yadav. During advance and ensuing exchange of fire, two other armed Maoist were neutralized. Due to unparalleled bravery, great tactical skill and operational appreciation shown by the team under command Sh. Rajender Singh (AC), Naxal started retreating in small groups and fled away taking advantage of forest vicinity, thick vegetation and undulated terrain. After the encounter, an extensive search was carried out and 04 (four) dead bodies of CPI(Maoist) (including SZC Rakesh Bhuyian, Area Commander Lallu Yadav and two other armed Maoist) and huge catch of weapons, ammunitions and other items were recovered from their possession.

In the entire course of operation, the extraordinary courage, tactical proficiency and gallant action shown by the small team led by Sh. Rajender Singh, AC his buddy No. 971280627 HC/GD Praveen Kumar displayed exceptional tactical acumen, decisive thinking and gallant action under intense hostile fire. The quality of bravery displayed by above Officer and his team has taken highest degree of risk and without caring for their lives, they kept on advancing towards Maoists under heavy fire and with their courage four hardcore Maoists (including Zonal Commander) the highest names in Maoist history of Jharkhand were killed.

In this operation S/Shri Rajender Singh, AC, Praveen Kumar, HC, Sanjeev Ranjan Singh, CT, Sanjay Kumar Singh, HC, S. Balachandra Reddy, CT, Umesh Yadav, HC and Lalit Kumar, ASI displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 26/02/2018.

(No. 11020/104/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special DutyPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 677 No.114-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 07.02.2018, an input was received about the presence of Maoist Leader Rakesh Bhuinya with his team in the forest area of Panchkheria village under PS Nawajaipur, Distt.-Palamu (JKD). The input was further corroborated with different sister agencies. On verification of input, a spl ops was planned and launched by QAT and one Young platoon of 134 Bn CRPF under command Sh. Sanjay Mohanty, Deputy Commandant (DC) along with troops of Jharkhand Police U/C Sh. Arun Kumar Singh, ASP (OPS) in the target area to nab the Maoists.

As planned, the troops laid multiple ambushes on the possible routes of Maoists for the whole night, but could not get any success. Since the input regarding Maoists movements was corroborated and verified, the teams decided to hold the area until further updates. The team commanders contacted their sources for fresh inputs about the Maoists who confirmed that Maoists are still in the nearby areas. This confirmation encouraged the troops to move further and find their target. Taking due precautions, troops started advancing towards Chetma & Junjulu Pahar in the wee hours of 08.02.2018. Realizing the gravity of the situation with high probability of facing the volley of fire, Shri Sanjay Mohanty, DC was leading the QAT from the front infusing motivation and courage amongst his troops. On getting closer to the indicated target i.e. Junjulu Pahar, party commander Shri Sanjay Mohanty, DC directed Young Platoon of 134 Bn and Jharkhand Police to lay cut-off at the pockets around the Pahar and provide mutual support in case of any need, while he, along with his QAT personnel advanced uphill.

As directed, troops of QAT/134 advanced from two different directions moving cautiously carrying out intensified search of the area. At about 1345 Hrs on 08.02.2018, the leading QAT Jawan CT/GD Pramod Kumar noticed some suspicious movements ahead. Once confirmed he immediately informed his commander regarding the presence of the armed Maoists at a distance. Sh. Sanjay Mohanty within no time alerted and sensitized the whole troops about the developments. Since QAT Jawans were familiar with the vicious and ill designs of the Maoists, every step was being taken carefully and tactically. After taking tactical positions, troops challenged the Maoists and asked them to surrender. The sudden warning from the troops left the Maoists stunned; perhaps they could not believe that SFs were so close to them. However, they recouped very quickly and opened indiscriminate firing upon the troops from different directions.

On hearing the gunshots, Shri Sanjay Mohanty, DC, took no time and directed his troops for the counter-attack against the Maoists. Leading the counter-attack from the front, he, along with SI/GD Anuj Kr. Tyagi, CT/GD Pramod Kumar and CT/GD Manoj Kumar of QAT 134 Bn charged towards the Maoists. Maoists were equipped with sophisticated weapons and were at tactically advantageous position. They were giving a tough battle to SFs and there was the likelihood of a prolonged and sustained encounter between the two. However, the troops were determined and hell-bent to take on them and not to return barehanded.

Though our troops were retaliating bravely, yet, it was not proving effective as the Maoists were in tactically advantageous position. A bold and courageous move was the need of the hour to hit the Maoists to avoid casualties to own troops. In such a demanding circumstance, Shri Sanjay Mohanty, DC, rise to the occasion owning the responsibility. Braving the flying bullets, he along with SI/GD Anuj Kumar Tyagi, CT/GD Pramod Kumar Dubey and CT/GD Manoj Kumar crawled forward to reach to a strategic point for launching an effective counter attack.

The remaining troops of QAT were ordered to provide cover fire and they did so.

On reaching the strategic positions, the above four brave hearts wreaked havoc on the Maoists using UBGLs. This ferocious counter-attack from a handful of troops created havoc and chaos in the Maoists faction.

Taking advantage of this, the above four troopers got even closer to Maoists and showered a barrage of bullets on them; Maoists ran helter-skelter looking for shelter/ escape. The Maoists started fleeing using the broken ground while firing on the advancing troops. In the meantime, SI/GD Anuj Kumar Tyagi fired H.E. bomb from Mortar that landed with perfection near the Maoists position, causing injuries to Maoists and denting their morale.

Troops did not stop here and continued with their counter-attack. Maoists were outwitted and could no longer sustain the wrath of SFs. They started fleeing under the cover of dense forest and hilly terrain and managed to escape. Once the firing stopped, troops carried out a thorough search of the area, wherein, they recovered dead body of a Maoist, weapons and miscellaneous incriminating items. Troops also apprehended one injured Mahila Maoist cadre from the spot.

Later on, on 10/02/2018, troops of A/134 Bn apprehended one more Maoist, said to be the area Comdr. Rajesh Yadav, in a separate incident, who during interrogation disclosed that in the gunfight during operation on 08.02.2018 several Maoists have sustained bullet injuries and are obtaining treatment at secluded places. One of the injured subsequently died and cremated secretly at some undisclosed place. This has the confirmation of the police records vide PS- Naudiha Bazaar SDE. No. 07/2018.

During the operation, Sh. Sanjay Mohanty, DC, SI/GD Anuj Kumar Tyagi, CT/GD Pramod Kumar Dubey, and CT/GD Manoj Kumar, fought bravely against the Maoists without caring for their own lives. They displayed sharp tactical acumen, courage, and responsibility while discharging their duties, despite being tired during the whole night ambush in the intervening night of 07 & 08.02.2018. The unparallel bravery and gallant actions displayed by troops of QAT/134 under adverse conditions deserve the highest recognition.

In this operation S/Shri Sanjay Mohanty, DC, Anuj Kumar Tyagi, SI, Pramod Kumar Dubey, CT and Manoj Kumar, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 08/02/2018.

(No. 11020/03/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 115-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

The National Highway - 44 in Jammu & Kashmir has been one of the most vulnerable road stretches from the perspective of militancy in South Kashmir. The primary reason for this is the high prospect of terrorist strike on the Security Forces Convoys during their move from Jammu to Srinagar and vice versa to cause mass casualties of troops. The stretch from Jawahar Tunnel to Srinagar particularly has been traditionally notorious for such attacks by the terrorists.

Although there is a well planned system of laying of Road Opening Parties (ROP) before move of SFs convoy by CRPF with supporting corridor protection by the Army, the limited strength of the troops available for the task leaves noticeable gaps in deployment which have been exploited by the terrorists time and again taking advantage of the flowing population along the highway and the numerous under construction and unoccupied buildings all along the undulating stretch.

On 4th Dec 2017, B/163 CRPF under supervision of Shri Prahalad Singh, Asstt. Comdt was deployed for ROP duty from milestone 227 - 231 on NH 44. At about 1240 hrs, when Up Convoy of Army (Part 4) was moving towards Srinagar, it was fired upon by militants at 228 milestone at village Bhadragund under PS Qazigund, Dist Kulgam from the right side ofPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 679 the highway. Constable Anil Sharma was deployed at the ROP picket on the left side of the highway alongwith three other personnel, placed at a distance from each other to cover the area. Considering the sensitivity of the situation, Anil Sharma without caring for his life immediately moved alone from his position came out on the open road and fired daringly at the terrorists. The instant reaction by Anil Sharma unnerved the terrorists and in an apparent display of annoyance, aimed their weapons at Anil Sharma. However, showing great alacrity, presence of mind and resolute courage, Constable Anil Sharma without loss of time in the absence of any cover immediately attained lying position on the road and continued to fire on the terrorists forcing the terrorists to retreat across the road and take refuge behind a large building.

Shri Prahlad Singh, Asst. Comdt. who was deployed at milestone 228.3 at Bonigam, on receipt of information about the attack, immediately rushed towards the incident site and also simultaneously informed Shri Daljit Singh, Comdt 163 Bn.

No sooner had he reached at the incident site, than the terrorists opened a volley of fire on his Bullet Proof (BP) vehicle.

Prahlad Singh completely undeterred retaliated by firing from the loophole in the vehicle. Simultaneously, he moved his BP vehicle off the road, quickly dismounted in its cover, took position on the rugged ground and resumed fire. The terrorists once again tucked themselves behind the building. Prahlad Singh had only three escort personnel with him and he was not aware about the number of terrorists present at the incident site. However, realizing the urgent need to cordon off the area to prevent their escape from the rear side of the building which was open and provided ample forest cover, Prahlad Singh without loss of time directed his escort personnel to cover the building from all sides. He himself ran to the rear of the building and as expected found the terrorists moving to the rear from the other side. On sighting him from a distance, the terrorists again opened fire on him, but, Prahalad immediately took position in a nullah at the rear of the building and targeted the terrorists. Due to this quick appreciation and bold action, the terrorists could not succeed in their plan of escaping from the rear side and were forced to move back to the front part of the building.

Shri Mohsen Shahedi, DIG (Operations) CRPF Anantnag who was on a visit to the Transit Camp, Qazigund located closeby, to witness operational demo, on receiving the information immediately rushed to the incident site alongwith Comdt 163 Bn & 90 Bn and Range QAT Anantnag and Unit QAT 163 Bn. On his arrival at the incident site and after talking to Prahlad Singh, DIG (Ops) Anantnag ordered for strengthening of the cordon around the suspect building. Thereafter, he tasked the Range QAT under command Shri. Daihrii Nenio to tactically move in BP Bunker with the HIT in ready position to cross the building from the front and look out for any suspect movement to confirm the presence of militants. When the Range QAT moved across and were facing the façade of the building, a burst was fired by the terrorists from the staircase of the building. The Range QAT members lead by Shri Daihrii Nenio retaliated the fire forcing the militants to again retreat into the building.

Once the presence of militants in the building was confirmed, Range QAT and Unit QAT 163 Bn were immediately tasked to occupy the front and left portion of the building respectively. Daihirii Nenio alongwith his buddy Constable Vivek Kumar took position in the front portion close to the target house. This was a risky position as it was virtually in the open without any effective cover against bullet fire or a grenade attack. However, since this was the only position which accorded some view on the movement of militants inside the building, from where the duo could put effective fire on the target, hence despite apparent grave threat, they took positions without loss of time. Since the terrorists continued to fire from behind a window in the building, Dahirii Nenio decided to fire UBGL to cause maximum damage. This was a difficult and extremely hazardous task as Nenio had to take position in the undulating open terrain and get exposed to give efficient fire. In a well synchronized act, Constable Vivek Kumar too moved in the open and gave covering fire as Nenio pounded UBGL on the terrorists one after another. This courageous act by the brave duo pinned down the militants till arrival of other SFs and reinforcements.

At this juncture, Army and civil police component joined the operation and further strengthened the cordon around the target house. Meanwhile, Nenio alongwith Vivek Kumar continued to put focused fire from their AK-47 on the position of the terrorists. Heavy exchange of fire continued between the security forces and the militants hiding in the under construction building. It was decided that RR would fire CGRL on the house from position across the road and CRPF led by Nenio and Vivek Kumar would give co-ordinated covering fire. After a concerted effort, the team successfully created a vent in the building. IED was laid to blast the house in which both Shri Nenio and Constable Vivek Kumar provided covering fire to perfection. During the process of laying of IED, the terrorists sighted the Army personnel getting close to the house and lobbed a grenade injuring one Army jawan. Shri Nenio alongwith his buddy Vivek Kumar without caring for their life immediately moved ahead firing indiscriminately at the hideout to prevent the terrorists from causing further damage and continued to do so till the jawan was safely evacuated from the place. Subsequently, the target house was blasted. Joint search parties were formed to retrieve dead bodies of the terrorists and weapons from the debris. Shri Nenio and Constable Vivek Kumar formed one such party. When the search was on, one of the terrorists fired from the debris, but the alert duo of Shri Nenio and Vivek Kumar immediately neutralized him and prevented any casualty/injury to troops. After a tedious search of the debris, bodies of three militants were recovered alongwith 02 AK-47 rifles, 01 AK-48 rifle, 04 magazines and 54 live680 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I —SEC. 1 rounds. The operation was successfully concluded at 0135 hrs on 5th Dec 2017 without any civilian casualty and the troops reached their respective locations safely.

The neutralized terrorists were identified as Yawar Bashir Wani (Cat A+), Abu Furkhan (FT/Cat A++) Div Comdr South Kashmir and Abu Maviya (FT/Cat A+). The trio were associated in a host of attacks on the civilians, police and SFs including ambush on SHO Achabal and his party at Thajiwada, Anantnag on 16th June 2017, attack on Shri Amarnathji Yatri bus at Batingo on 10th July 2017 and attack on transit convoy of CRPF at Lazibal, Anantnag on 2nd Nov 2017.

The operation at Bhadragund was probably the first instance wherein the terrorists attacking a SF convoy could not flee from the incident site but were trapped and eventually neutralized. This was possible because of the rapid response and retaliation by CRPF troops which faced the daunting situation with exemplary courage and professionalism and more importantly effectively tackled the initial phase of the operation all alone. The architects of the successful operation were Shri Daihrii Nenio Asst Comdt, Shri Prahlad Singh, Asst Comdt, Constables Vivek Kumar and Anil Sharma who showed tremendous grit and exemplary valour in the operation.

In this operation S/Shri Daihrii Nenio, AC, Prahlad Singh, AC, Anil Sharma, CT and Vivek Kumar, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 04/12/2017.

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 116-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 28/05/2018, an intelligence input was received from own source regarding the presence of an armed group of TPC Maoists led by Gireder Ganju (Zonal Commander) along with sub-zonal commander Nishant Ji, in general area of Tirdih, Dundur under Ps- Chhatarpur, Distt - Palamu (Jharkhand). After corroborating the information, an operation was planned by DIGP (Ops) Palamu, Commandant 134 Bn, S.P. Palamu, and Shri Rajendra Harijan, A/C to achieve the objective.

As per the plan, two platoons of A/134 Bn under command Shri Rajendra Harijan, A/C (OC-A/134) with Civil Police moved out for Search and Destroy Operation on 28/05/2018. As the time was short and intelligence highly reliable, troops used civil pattern vehicles up to Dundu village from where they could enter the operating zone without getting noticed and secrecy/surprise intact.

While the troops of A/134 were advancing tactically towards the forest area of the Dundur village taking all the cautions, at approx 1130 hrs, the scout of the leading team noticed a suspicious movement in the forest area. Scouts observed the movement carefully and immediately informed his commander Sh. Rajendra Harijan, AC who verified it by using binoculars. The Commander immediately alerted his troops using field signals and briefed about the prevailing situation. The commander and troops were confirm of the Maoists presence but were not sure of their strength and ground features.

Advancing without ascertaining the strength and locations would prove detrimental, so, commander decided to ascertain thePART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 681 above details first and for the purpose, formed a small reccee party. Sensing the gravity of the situation and probable dangers ahead, team commander Shri Rajendra Harijan, AC decided to himself lead the reccee party consisting of Constable Rahul Kumar Pathak and CT(GD) Dhiman Barua. The reccee party started advancing towards the Maoists position stealthily.

When the troops were closing towards the Maoists, a volley of automatic fire welcomed them. The Maoists, sensing the encirclement, opened fire with intention to kill the SFs and snatch their weapons, ammunition & communication set. However, the troops were prepared for such a situation. Holding on to their nerves in the critical situation, Sh. Rajendra Harijan, AC along with his duo brave-hearts retaliated the fire and rushed for the cover. While doing so he passed orders to remaining troops to cover both the sides/flanks of Maoists tactically. He also challenged Maoists to surrender on top of his voice but was answered again by volley of fire. Determined to bring the Maoists to clutches of law, Sh. Rajendra Harijan, AC along with Constable Rahul Kumar Pathak and Constable Dhiman Barua continued their advance towards Maoists location providing mutual fire support to each other and using ground cover to their advantage.

Alienated from the warning of the troops and finding them close to their position, Maoists directed all their firepower on the approaching troops from multiple directions. The Maoists seem to be in no mood to surrender and left with no option but to launch counter offensive, the commander directed his troops to launch the counter-attack against the Maoists. As per strategy, the 2nd set of troops consisting of Constable Amaijeet Kumar Das, Constable Rangjalu Baro, Constable Anup dey and Constable Jayanta Boro who were behind the reccee party, started flanking the Maoists. A heavy exchange of fire commenced from both sides. It was at this moment, Sh. Rajendra Harijan, AC, Constable Rahul Kumar Pathak, and Constable Dhiman Barua located the Maoists position at a close distance from them. The commander Sh Rajendra Harijan, AC directed the second party (Constable Amarjeet Kumar Das, Constable Rangjalu Baro, Constable Anup dey and Constable Jayanta Boro) who were flanking the Maoists, to open heavy fire upon the Maoists. Maoists too opened heavy fire on this party trying to run over them. The four personnel braved the heavy fire attack and continued firing upon them as directed by the commander. It was under this fire cover, did the reccee party led by Sh Rajinder Harijan, AC duly assisted by Ct Rahul Pathak and Ct Dhiman Barua charged towards the Maoists without caring for their own life firing accurately and effectively. Some of the Maoists were hit.

The ferocious counter-attack from the front and flanks by the above brave hearts destroyed the Maoist's defense and forced them to run towards the hillside: While running too Maoists were firing heavily on the flanking troops. The flanking troops namely CT Amarjeet Kumar Das, CT Rangjalu Baro, CT Anup Dey, and CT Jayanta Boro not only retaliated the Maoists firing with full might without caring for their lives but also chased the fleeing Maoists and hit some of them with their accurate firing while few. managed to escape taking advantage of vegetation and undulating ground.

During post encounter search dead bodies of three Maoists, later identified as Amarjeet @ Rajesh Majhi (TPC Area Commander), Pawan Ji (TPC Area Commander) and Chandan Ji (TPC Area Commander) recovered from the encounter site.

One AKM rifle, two SLR, two 303 rifle, one 315 bore rifle, huge quantity of ammunition and miscellaneous incriminating items were recovered from their possession. Besides, troops also apprehended three Maoists namely Vikas Paswan, TPC Dasta Member, Sonu Kr. Yadav, TPC Dasta Member, and Lallu Singh, Age TP Dasta Member from the encounter site. One of the apprehended Maoists had suffered bullet Injuries on his right thigh and was later admitted to District Hospital, Daltonganj, Palamu for treatment.

In this operation S/Shri Rajendra Harijan, AC, Amarjeet Kumar Das, CT, Anup Dey, CT, Jayanta Boro, CT, Rangjalu Baro, CT, Rahul Kumar Pathak, CT and Dhiman Barua, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 28/05/2018.

(No. 11020/54/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN

Officer on Special Duty682 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I —SEC. 1 No. 117-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/1st Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On the intervening night of 22-23 January 2019, a credible input regarding the presence of a terrorist group in general area of Binnar Nallah of Tehsil Baramulla was received by Baramulla Police. Accordingly a joint operation was planned by Shri. Vinay Kumar Tiwari Commandant 53 Bn CRPF, Shri Mohd Yousif, Addl SP, Baramulla and Commanding Officer (CO) of 46 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) under the close supervision of Shri. Atul Kumar Goel, DIG, JKP, North Kashmir. The operation was meticulously planned keeping in mind the weather conditions and other issues including the increasing tendency of stone pelters who try to disrupt the operation to provide terrorists with an opportunity to flee.For better operational coordination and effective communication, the diverse operational components exchanged their wireless equipments and guides with each other besides having composite operational components. Baramulla being the northernmost district of thestate of J&K, the presence of foreign terrorists are more in number who remain in a state of hibernation and rarely execute any heinous acts with an intention to carry on in their hideouts, accumulate the logistics and thereafter launch the cadres in South Kashmir after due planning. Therefore, operations in North Kashmir are undertakenmajority of the times on receipt of credible actionable input.

Thus according to the plan, the suspected hideout was cordoned during the wee hours on 23 January 2019. The composite parties of 53 Bn led by Comdt. Vinay K. Tiwari, 46 RR led by CO 46 RR and the local police led by Mohd. Yousif, Addl SP Baramulla approached the suspected nallah (small drain where the terrorists were suspected to be hiding) by adopting the unconventional treacherous routes, maintaining high level of surprise till a tight cordon was established. All the possible escape routes were plugged off tactically to prevent every possibility of escape. The unprecedented heavy snow fall in Januaryhad led to extreme chilly conditions and coupled with dense bushes and hilly terrain was hampering the mobility of the troops. Unfazed by the treacherous terrain and severe cold conditions the troops moved on and succeeded in laying a tactically impeccable cordon. However, on account of poor visibility owing to heavy fog the search operation was suspended till 1000hrs. Once the visibility improved, the composite search parties constituted as per already evolved plan, commenced search of suspected Nallah assisted by continuous aerial surveillance by quadcopters. The composite search teams of 46 RR assisted by 4 Para (SF), Special Operations Group (SOG) Baramulla and 53 Bn CRPF thoroughly searched the nallah thrice but could not succeed in detecting the hideout.

At around 1300 hours, unwilling to give up,Shri. Vinay Kumar Tiwari, Comdt 53 Bn and Mohd Yousif, Addl. SP Baramulla with their small teams moved to the suspected hidden area again as they were convinced about the presence of terrorists. This time around the parties noticed boot marks in the snow.They tactically followed the tell tale signs which led them to suspected hideout. The hideout was most unassuming and difficult to track. The steadfastness, determination and never say die attitude of the troops under the shrewd and energetic command of Vinay Tiwari in the most bone chilling and hostile terrain was the reason why they could detect it. As soon as the hideout was detected, one composite component of the operational party led by Vinay Kumar Tiwari was deployed on the eastern side in order to tighten the innermost eastern flank of the hideout, second composite component of operational party led by No 135115561Sub-Inspector Mukesh Kumar was deployed on the North-East flankwhile the third operational component led by Mohd Yousiflaid the innermost cordon around the hide on its western flank along with Army/CRPF parties. Thereafter the terrorists were given ample opportunity to surrender, but theyremained unmoved. Realising that they were exposed, the terrorists fired indiscriminately and lobbed hand grenades on the search party in a bid to escape by inflicting a chink in the cordon. Anticipating the move of the terrorists the composite parties of Army, Police and CRPF effectively retaliated duly preventing the escape bid. Exhibiting great synergy with different operational parties, the composite assault party of Sh Vinay Kumar Tiwari with his team including No 135115561 Sub-Inspector Mukesh Kumar, No 903061982 Asst. Sub-Inspector Mohd Yousuf Itoo, No 105261444 Constable Neeraj Kumar, No. 115143631 Constable Shaid Hussain and Shri Kaping Gil, Second-in-Command realigned themselves tactically.Meanwhile, some civilians working in the adjacent apple orchards were trapped in the cordon and had to be evacuated. Kaping Gill alongwith his troops ensured their safe evacuation from the encounter site unharmed.The hideout was a cave like structure covered with snow and bushes. Finding themselves totally cornered the terrorists made one last attempt to flee barging out of the hideout firing indiscriminately and lobbing grenades in all direction. The team under Vinay Tiwari were prepared for this onslaught and had assumed positions facing the mouth of the hideout taking natural cover provided by the snow and bushes. As soon as the three terrorists stepped out of the hideout, taking them on from close quarters, in a battlePART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 683 of life and death, Shri. Vinay Tiwari, Comdt ably supported byMukesh Kumar, Mohd. Yousif Ittoo, Neeraj Kumar, and Shaid Hussain opened targeted fire at the terrorists and eliminated all the three of them.

The three slain terrorists were identified as Suhaib Akhoon @ Hurrairah r/o Khanpora, Baramulla (B-Cat.), Mohsin Mushtaq Bhat r/o Qazihamam Baramulla (B-Cat.) and Nasir Ahmad Darzi @ Hamza r/o Sangrampora, Bhatpora, Jamia Qadeem, Baramulla (B-Cat.) and were affiliated to the Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist outfit. Recoveries included three AK Rifles, magazines, 132 rds of aamunition, 02 Hand grenades and other incriminating material.

Suhaib Akhoon @ Hurrirah was a PoK trained militant and self-styled operational chief of LeT for North Kashmir. The killing of all the three terroristsbroke the back bone of LeT in North Kashmir putting an end to the atrocities on civilians and recruitment of innocent youngsters.

In the operation, Shri. Vinay Kumar Tiwari, Commandant, 53 Bn CRPF chose to lead from the front and displayed astute decision making skills and presence of mind, choosing not to turn back even when the others had given up the hope of hunting down the terrorists. His dogged determination and courage of conviction ultimately led to the discovery of the terrorist hideoutand the elimination of the three terrorists. Sub-Inspector Mukesh Kumar, Asst. Sub Inspector Mohd Yousuf Itoo and Constables Neeraj Kumar and Shaid Hussain exhibited exemplary bravery, steely resolve and rare valour under the most trying conditions and followed their leader till the objective was achieved.

In recognition of their conspicuous act of gallantry, raw valour and unflinching commitment to duties in the face of grave adversity in keeping with the highest traditions of the Force, I hereby recommend Sh. Vinay Kumar Tiwari, Comdt (IRLA-4732) No. 135115561 Sub InspectorMukesh Kumar, No. 903061982 Assistant Sub InspectorMd. Yousuf Itoo, No. 105261444 Constable Neeraj Kumar, No. 115143631 Constable Shaid Hussain of 53 Bn CRPFfor the award of Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG).

In this operation S/ShriVinay Kumar Tiwari, Comdt., Mukesh Kumar, SI, Mohd. Yousuf Itoo, ASI, Neeraj Kumar, CT and Shaid Hussain, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 22/01/2019.

(No. 11020/64/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 118-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry (Posthumously) to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 12thMay 2018, at about 0005 hrs, on receipt of credible intelligence input from Civil Police about the presence of 03 terrorists in the area of village Chinar Bagh under PS and District Pulwama in Jammu Kashmir (J&K), a joint cordon and search operation involving 183 Bn, CRPF, 55 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and Special Operations Group (SOG), Pulwama was planned. The Chinar Bagh is a densely populated village with houses closely located to each other. The village is situated on the Pulwama - Srinagar road. Ever since the unrest erupted post the killing of Burhan Wani, South Kashmir in general and Pulwama in particular has been restive and witness to many fresh recruitment of locals and increased involvement of locals in law and order, whenever any operation was launched. The hostility of the locals towards the security forces makes conducting operations even more challenging.

After initial briefing SOG-182 Bn under command Shri K.K.Yadav, Asst. Comdt. and SOG-183 under command No 880977143 Asst. Sub - Inspector J.C Bora alongwith SOG-JKP Pulwama & 55 RR reached village Chinar Bagh at around 0020 hrs. Meanwhile, a small cordon of around 14-15 suspected houses was already laid by troops of 55 RR. SOG-182 & SOG-183, SOG Pulwama joined the inner cordon. Thereafter search of suspected houses was commenced by joint troops of SOG Pulwama, SOGs 182, 183 and 55 RR. When search of around 10 suspectedhouses were completed and the troops were advancing towards the next suspect house, terrorists who were apparently hiding behind the wooden dump on the eastern side of the house, fired a volley on the joint search party in an attempt to flee. Immediately, No. 115160302 Constable Mandeep Kumar and No 155060164 Sub- Inspector Shivam Pratap Singh who were in the inner cordon retaliated the fire but due to darkness, the exact position of the terrorists could not be ascertained. At the same time, effective fire by the duo helped confine the terrorists within a particular area. Meanwhile, Mandeep Kumar was hit and he sustained severe injuries in his hands and legs.This unexpected fire by the terrorist took the troops by surprise and everybody were pinned down or took shelter behind available cover.Constable Mandeep Kumar who was in the forefront and was immobilized on account of his injuries, did not panic and took position just behind the target house and continued to fire ensuring that the terrorists were684 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I —SEC. 1 pinned down and unable to escape. This dare devil attempt on the part of Mandeep Kumar prevented any further loss to own troops.Meanwhile, he also observed that the other terrorist who was hiding in the target house was making an attempt to escape from the back side of house with the help of covering fire from his colleague. Losing no time and unmindful of the injuries and his own safety Constable Mandeep Kumar sprang out ofhis cover and advanced towards the terrorist blocking his escape route and fired at him. The terrorist fired back at Mandeep Kumar who was already severely wounded. The terrorists fire hit him on his vital parts and he fell down.

Since the cluster of target houses was fenced which not only obstructed the view, but also did not have any natural cover for the troops to go ahead and evacuate the injured Constable. The target house was fired upon with UBGLs and Rifles and in the process at around 0300 hrs fire broke out in the target house. Fire tenders were pressed into service to extinguish the fire. At about 0615 hrs after extinguishing the fire, joint search parties of CRPF, 55 RR and SOG, Pulwama Police searched the target area. After a thorough search, Force No. 115160302 Constable Mandeep Kumar was found who had already breathed his last.Some blood stains were found upto a distance which indicated that at least one of the terrorist had sustained injuries in the exchange of fire with Mandeep Kumar, though both the terrorists had managed to slip out of the cordon with the support of the local public. Since the crowd was swelling the joint authorities decided to call off the operation around 0700 hrs.

In this operation Late Shri Mandeep Kumar, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 12/05/2018.

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 119-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 31st March 2018, at about 2200 hrs on receipt of a credibleintelligence input from SSP Shopian about the presence of terrorists in two villages Kachdora and Dragad in Shopian district, a joint Cordon and Search Operation (CASO) was launched alongwith 34 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) at Kachdora village and with 44 RR in village Dragad. At about 2310 hrs Counter Terrorism Team (CTT) of A coy of 14 Bn under command of Sh. Ab. Kaipou, Asst. Comdt and Special Operations Group (SOG), Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP), Shopian party of 34 RR party moved towards Kachdora. At about 2330 hrs, after reaching the target area at Kachdora and while the troops started laying the cordon of about 8-9 houses, the terrorists in panic opened heavy fire on the CTT party in an attempt to break the cordon. Troops immediately assumed safe positions and retaliated effectively. In the midst, braving the exchange of fire No.130140032 Sub-Inspector R D Ashemval Anal and his buddy No. 115137418 CT/GD Nilamoni Deka with two other personnel moved ahead and completed the cordon thereby preventing the escape. Additional reinforcements were called for, and Comdt 14 Bn, CRPF alongwith SSP Shopian rushed with additional troops. It was darkand therefore exact position of theadversaries could not be located. It was also learnt that some civilians were trapped in the cordoned which was preventing the troops from firing. The operation was thus suspended till first light and the cordon was further strengthened. As soon as the day broke, civilians were evacuated. The terrorists, meanwhile, continued to fire from one of the three storied concrete buildings. Being well fortified the retaliatory fire had no effect on them. Several rounds of UBGL were also fired into the building but even UBGL fire failed to unnerve them, leave alone neutralize. Regular announcements on the public address system from the local masjid to the public to throng the encounter site encouraged the crowd and they began gathering in the orchard area behind the target house where the CTT party was positioned in the inner cordon. The law and order situation was turning grim and the troops were finding it difficult to manage the law and order eruption. CTT party while engaging the militants in the gunfight in the cordon, had also to simultaneously engage the stone pelters, resulting in minor injuries to CTT Commander Ab. Kaipou on his nose. Since the CTT party was located relatively close to the target house and the terrorists were in a dominating position, the CTT party came under heavy fire from the terrorists.Sub-Inspector Ashemval Anal and his buddy undeterred by the fire effectively retaliated and managed to stem the fire of the terrorists. Sh. Ab. Kaipou despite sustaining injury, along with few personnel ofPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 685 the CTT party, continued to keep the rapidly swelling crowds at bay, who were indulging in excessive stone pelting and threatening to storm the cordon. Shri Erick Gilbert Jose, Comdt, 14 Bnalong with his protection party immediately rushed to augment the CTT party but on the way were intercepted by heavy fire from the top floor of one of the target house. The incoming fire as well as the simmering crowd cut short their advance towards the CTT party. Erick Gilbert Jose unmoved by the situation, maintained his calm and with the help of tactical skills succeeded in identifying the position of terrorists. Simultaneously, braving the stone pelters, he fired heavily on the suspect terrorist positions and continued to move forward provide covering fire so that his protection party couldreach in support of CTT party. The aggressive response on the part of the Commandant help save the CTT party from being outnumbered and the cordon from being stormed by the stone pelters. However, the three storied target building being a concrete structure continued to be unaffected by any kind of fire providing safety and also provided the terrorists a distinct tactical advantage, providing them a clear line of sight, thereby preventing the forces also from approaching the building. At about 1300 hrs it was decided to demolish the building with IED.The main target building of three stories was razed to the ground after fourth attempt with powerful IEDs. When the troops of RR approached the second building to place an IED, two RR jawans were injured in the exchange of fire. Evacuating the injured jawans was a challenge as the adversaries continued to fire heavily. Ashemval Anal and his buddyConstable Nilamoni Deka who were positioned close to the injured jawan, putting their own life to risk crawled tactically towards him amidst heavy exchange of fire and evacuated him. Heavy exchange of fire continued for almost half an hours, but by then the second building was also in flames burning the building partially. When there was no more fire from the adversary for a long time, joint search parties were formed to search the debris. When the search party approached the debris, one of the terrorist who was still alive, suddenly let out a volley of fire seriously injuring one more jawan of RR. Search parties took position and retaliated the fire. The injured jawan lay precariously close to the terrorist, making evacuation a tough job. No. 115137445 Constable Biswajit Das and No. 145311886 Constable Rakesh Bhagat alongwith counterparts from RR and SOG moved forward tactically adopting fire and move tactics taking advantage of whatever little natural cover was available and reached very close to the injured jawan amidst heavy fire. The militant was watching the approaching troops and opened heavy fire on their positions. Biswajit Das and Rakesh Bhagatdetermined to save their injured colleaguein a split moment exhibiting sharp reflexes and the confidence of trained soldiers moved out of their cover exposing themselves and fired at the surviving terrorist neutralizing him. Thereafter the search parties searched the debris resulting in the recovery of one dead body of a slain terrorist. Two more partially charred dead bodies were recovered from the debris of adjacent building. In the absence of JCB only part of the debris could be searched. Since the law and order situation continued to worsen it was decided to conclude the operation. Civil Police requisitioned for additional CRPF troops for withdrawal as information was received by police that large number of stone pelters were being ferried by vehicles from several villages around and were waiting for the troops on the way. However,Commandant 14 Bn, CRPF rather than waiting for reinforcements after assessing the situation chose to tactically withdraw from the encounter site without waste of time.

Subsequently when the debris was finally cleared two more bodies of slain terrorists were recovered who were identified as Ishfaq Ahmad Thokarof HM outfit categorized A+, r/o Paddarpora, Shopian, Atimaad Hussain Malik of LeT categorized C, r/o Amshipora Asthan Mohalla, Shopian, Sameer Ahmad Lone of HM outfit categorized C, r/o Hillow Gund Mureed, Shopian, Gayas Ul-Islam Thoker of HM outfit categorized B, r/o Paddarpora, Shopian and Aaqib Iqbal Malik @ Tahir Bhai of HM outfit, categorized C, r/o Rangadh, Kulgam. Recoveries included two AK-56 rifles, one 5.56 Insas rifle, magazines, 109 rounds of 5.56 mm, 106 rds of 7.62 mm and 16 rds of 9mm.

In the operation, Sub InspectorR.D. Ashemval Anal, Constable Nilamoni Deka, Constable Biswajit Das and Constable Rakesh Bhagat exhibited exceptional bravery, courage under the most challenging circumstance staking their own lives to rescue their injured colleagues and also retaliating fiercely displaying raw valour and nerves of steel to eliminate the terrorists.

Therefore, in recognition of their acts of conspicuous gallantry, exemplary valour, highest degree of commitment and dedication to duties in the face of grave and imminent danger, I hereby recommend No 130140032 Sub-Inspector R.D. Ashemval Anal, No. 115137418 Constable Nilamoni Deka, No. 115137445Constable Biswajit Das and No. 145311886 Constable Rakesh Bhagat of 14Bn CRPF, for the award of Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG).

In this operation S/Shri R D Ashemval Anal, SI, Nilamoni Deka, CT,Biswajit Das, CT and Rakesh Bhagat, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 31/03/2018.

(No. 11020/68/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty686 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I —SEC. 1 No. 120-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the President Police Medal for Gallantry (Posthumously) to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

Acting on the specific inputs regarding the presence of top Maoist leaders with armed cadres in the general forest area of West Singhbhum, Khunti, Saraikela-Kharsawan,a joint Ops was launched by the troops of 209 CoBRA along with CRPF Units and State Police.

As per the plan, troops moved towards the target area on 07/06/2018 at around 0650 hrs, while troops were wending through the deep forested and hilly terrain, the alert scout of team no. 06 of 209 CoBRA,CT/GD Utpal Rabha observed suspicious movements of 3-4 men at the ridge/height upfront, at the distance of around 80 metres. He immediately alerted his team Commander and other team members nearby. Within no time, team commander Shri Hanuman Ram, Asst. Comdt. and scout, Force no. 115135344 CT/GD Utpal -Rabha comprehended the situation & established the presence of armed Maoist cadres on the height (between Karra and Kasrauli villages). They immediately relayed the situation over VHF set to all. The teams advanced to encircle and nab the armed Maoist cadres.

The target was at the height of around 20 meters with a steep gradient &rough terrain with lean & scattered vegetation. Team no 6 was in the lead and heading towards the target stealthily. Meanwhile, sensing the presence of security forces, the CPI Armed Maoists, perched atop in their fortified positions (morchas) started indiscriminate firing on the head portion of t eam- 0 6. Tr oop s cau gh t i n the killi n g z one of t he Ma oists. The y immediately took the position behind the available covers and tried to locate the Maoists position for countering their attack. During this run of heavy fire, the scout of team No. 06 CT/GD Utpal Rabha sighted the exact position of Maoists on two ridges ahead to the operating teams/ troops and communicated the same to his team commander. Absence of ground cover proved no barrier to the team commander Shri Hanuman Ram, Asst. Comdt. and he mobilised his team to engage the Maoists with heavy suppressive fire.

To obstruct the uphill advance of troops, Maoists concentrated their fire power on the troops in the lead. Undeterred with the heavy firing, scout of team No. 06 i.e CT/GD Utpal Rabha with CT/GD Ajay Kumar and CT/GD Dilip Oraon started flanking the Maoists from the right side. CT/GD Utpal Rabha fired UBGL grenade on fortified morcha of Maoists and inched closer towards their position. He continued his advance aggressively from the right flank using fire and move tactics along with his fellow troopers. The Maoists, perched atop, were firing intermittently, with sole aim of stopping the advance movement. While inching closer to the Maoist position, one bullet hit CT/GD Utpal Rabha's at upper part of left shoulder. Despite being hit, he took cover and started targeting the Maoists positions with his precise firing. Without caring for his own life despite being hit, he advanced and reached as close as to 40 meter of Maoists position. He crawled further to reach at a vantage and strategic point from where he could launch an effective counter attack on the Maoists fortified position. He loaded one grenade (UBGL) to fire on the Maoists morchas to dislodge them from their positions. While he rose and fired the UBGL, a bullet again hit him in the face area which later proved fatal. He fell down there only. During evacuation, CT/GD Utpal Rabha succumbed to the injuries and attained martyrdom.

The daredevilry and raw courage displayed by Constable Utpal Rabha not only ensured the safety of his team members but extraordinary valour with brewing energy exhibited by him inspired others to hold to the ground till end. Constable Utpal Rabha made supreme sacrifice in the line of duty for the Nation and the cause.

In this operation Late Shri Utpal Rabha, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 07/06/2018.

(No.11020/69/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 121-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 12th September 2018 at about 2200 hrs, on receipt of a credible input about the presence of two dreaded militants suspected to be foreigners in Village-Teliyan Mohalla of Arampora, u/ps-Sopore, Distt- Baramulla (J&K), joint troops of 179, 177 and 92 Bns of CRPF, troops of 22 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and Special Operations Group (SOG) under their respective Commanders rushed to village Teliyan Mohall, Arampora. Whereas, a local source confirmed the presence of two militants in Teliyan Mohalla, but he was unable to give the exact location/target house. Hence, an effective Ops plan was chalked out and the target area consisting of 08-10 houses. Troops of E/179 Bn u/c Inspector Surender Singh, QAT of 179 Bn u/c Shri Kartar Singh, Second-in-Command were assigned to cordon the suspected houses on the southern side, QAT of 177 Bn u/c of Shri Kalyan Singh, Second-in-Command cordoned the target area from the south extending to the south-east and QAT of Range Baramulla u/c Shri Manish Kumar extended the cordon to the south-east and SOG Sopore cordoned the eastern side with 22 RR completing the remaining cordon. Remaining troops of 92 Bn laid the outer cordon to prevent stone pelters from interrupting the operation.

Once the cordon was tightly established, joint teams were formed to carry out door to door search of the target houses under Commandants of 177 & 179 Bns of CRPF. As the search was on, at about 0155 hrs, the owner of one of the house informed about the presence of two terrorists in his neighbour's house. Immediately the cordon was strengthened around the suspected target house and an announcement was made on the public address system asking the terrorists to surrender. However, the warning did not elicit any response from the adversary. There were civilians trapped in the target house as well as adjacent houses who had to be evacuated before any action had to be initiated. However, putting themselves to risk, duly supported by the covering fire from the inner cordon, the civilians were safely evacuated by the joint troops. Once again an opportunity was provided to the terrorists to surrender which went unheeded. At about 0350 hrs firing indiscriminately the terrorists rushed out of the target house in a bid to escape by breaking the cordon. Effective retaliation by the troops compelled the terrorists to retreat. After a brief lull there was another exchange of fire and taking advantage of darkness one of the terrorist managed to sneak out of the house and took position in the nearby orchard. Since the darkness would have hampered the operation, the troops further tightened the cordon and the target house/orchard were lit up using halogen lights. The terrorists who had stepped out of the target house and was hiding in the orchard once gain engaged the troops in the exchange of fire. Since it was dark, the operation was temporarily suspended till first light with the cordon being kept intact. As the apple orchard was dense and indiscriminate exchange of fire would not have yielded any result it was decided to carry out a thorough search of the orchard. Accordingly, two small teams were formed under Commandants 177 and 179 Bns while the remaining troops remained positioned in the inner cordon to prevent any attempted escape by the terrorists. The search was commenced very tactfully. As the search party advanced, sensing the advancing troops the terrorist opened heavy fire targeting the search party exposing his position. No. 061775607 Constable Ramu Lohar of 179 Bn and No. 085341945 Constable Mohd Younes Khan of 177 Bn decided to take on the terrorist. Exhibiting stern resolve and a steely determination, throwing all caution to winds both of them moved towards the terrorist from two different flanks in a bid to take him by surprise. Slowly but stealthily adopting smaller postures they crawled their way to the proximity of the hiding terrorist. The terrorist suddenly found himself face to face with Constable Ram Lohar. Not knowing that Constable Mohd Younes had also inched closer to him he turned around in a bid to escape opening a heavy burst of fire. Both the Constable Ram Lohar and Mohd. Younes pounced at the fleeing terrorist and fired a volley of burst fire neutralizing the terrorist on the spot. Meanwhile, the second terrorist attempted to escape from the northwest of the target house, where the troops of 22 RR were in position. He ran into them and was eliminated in the process. After a prolonged lull a thorough search of the target houses and the apple orchard was undertaken by the search parties resulting in the recovery of dead bodies of two slain terrorists alongwith two pistols, UBGL thrower, six magazines and live ammunition apart from other incriminating material. The slain terrorists were identified as Ali @ Athar @ Saifullah and Umar @ Zia-Ur-Rehman both Jaish-e-Mohd (JeM) terrorists of Pak origin categorized A++.

In the operation No. 061775607 Constable Ramu Lohar of 179 Bn No 085341845 Constable Mohd Younesh Khan of 177 Bn exhibited extraordinary initiative, exemplary valour, tactical acumen and selfless dedication and devotion to duties under the most adverse circumstances and kept their nerves intact when the situation so demanded and succeeded in eliminating the terrorist.

Therefore, in recognition of their conspicuous act of gallantry, raw valour and unflinching commitment to duties under grave adversity in keeping with the highest traditions of the Force, I hereby recommend No 061775607 Constable Ramu Lohar of 179 Bn & No. 085341845 Constable Mohd Younesh Khan of 177 Bn, CRPF for the award of Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG).

In this operation S/Shri Mohd Yones Khan, CT and Ramu Lohar, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 12/09/2018.

(No. 11020/77/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty688 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I —SEC. 1 No. 122-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/1st Bar to the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

During October 2018 foreign terrorists of Jaish-e-Mohd (JeM) including trained snipers infiltrated in sub-division Tral ofSouth Kashmir.The terrorists carried outsniper attacks on the camps of 180 Bn CRPF and 42/RR five times within a span of a week, whereby 03 jawans attained martyrdom and a number of jawans were injured. An atmosphere of insecurity and fear spread amongst the security forces.

On 29th October 2018, a reliable input was received that on the same night terrorists ofJeMmay againcarry out attack on A/42 Rashtriya Rifles,Mandoora, G/180 Bn and C/180 Bn CRPF u/PS-Tral. Accordingly, 42 RR laid an ambush near the camp of A/42 RR at Mandoora. QAT/180, CRPF u/c Shri Rajesh Kumar Barnela Asst. Comdt laid naka near village Sherabad and C/180 CRPF u/c Shri. Gopal Ram Asst. Comdt alongwith Special Operations Group (SOG), Tral laid naka at Pinglish crossing.At about 2220 hrs, the sniper team of JeM fired at the LMG sentry Morcha of A/42 RR camp at Mandoora and fled after fire. As they were fleeing they ran into the ambush party of 42 RR,but under the cover of darkness and taking advantage of the undulating terrain they managed to escape. On receipt of this information,ShriRajesh Kumar, Comdt-180 Bn. CRPFdeployed his troops on theescape routes coveringvillage Mandoora, Chhan-ki-Tar and nearby apples orchards in order to cut short their attempted escape.The troops remained deployed the entire night and at first light search of the suspected area was carried out. However, not finding anything the troopsclosed atMandoora camp.

The next day i.e. on 30th October 2018, at about 1150 hrs an input was receivedabout the presence of terrorists of JeM in Village-Chhan-Ki-Tar which was approximately 02 kms from village Mandoora.Without loss of time QAT/180 u/c Shri Rajesh Kumar Barnela alongwith SDPO Traland other members of the Civil Police and troops of 42 RR tactically moved from different routes to cordon offthe village Chhan-Ki-Tar. In the meantime, Brig. Balbir Singh Commander 1st RR,Commanding Officer (C0) 42 RR, SSP Awantipora, Comdt-180 Bn CRPF, C/180 CRPF u/c Shri Gopal Ram Asst. Comdt along with SOG Tral also reached the said village. The troops swiftly and strategically laid a cordon of the village Chhan-Ki-Tar. C/180 started established the cordon to the south of village Chhan-Ki-Tar. As the troops were laying the cordon, the terrorists fired on the cordon party near the Wani Mohalla of village Chhan-Ki-Tar, from a double storyhouse near the Masjid wherein one officer of RR had a miraculous escape.The troops of 42/RR, QAT/180, C/180 CRPF and police also retaliated the fire. Shri Gopal Ram with his buddy No. 065341084 Constable Latif Ahmad Bhat, No. 135279797 Constable Sreenivasulu P and his buddy No. 125340677 Constable Roomi Kumarwho were near the bathroom blockright opposite the double storiedtarget house at the time of initial fire, took position and returned the fire. Astutely sensing that the terrorist would evade the cordon the officer instantly took decision and immediately moved his partyto the under construction house on the south side of the target house to cover the target house from that direction.Gopal Ram and his buddyConstable Latif Ahmad Bhat andConstable Sreenivasulu P. took position behind a small pillar of the under construction house in front of the target houseand were tasked to cover the main corridor gallery of the target house. His buddyConstable Roomi Kumar covered the cow-shed adjacent to target housein thewest direction. The other members ofhis team and troops were tactically deployed at vantage positions. QAT/180 u/c Rajesh Kumar Barnela took position in another neighbourhood houseon the west side andother two sides of the target house were covered by the troops of 42 RR.

Thereafter, announcement was made on the public address system asking the terrorists to surrender, but, in response the terrorists fired a volley from the north side of the house. The troops in the close cordon also retaliated the fire triggeringa fierce gun fight.Even after a prolonged exchange of fire, no party was effectivelyable to engage the clandestinely positioned terrorists who had entrenched themselves in well fortified positions inside the house and were firing at the parties tryingto approach the target building. The terrorists were also firing UBGL Rounds and grenades so as to break the cordon towards Gopal Ram and his buddy and two other jawanswho were positioned behind waist- high walls of the under construction houseat a distance of about 40 metresfrom the target house. However, Gopal Ram, Latif Ahmad Bhat, Sreenivasulu P. displaying great resolve and fortitude stuck to their positions foiling every attempt by the terrorists to dislodge them. At about 1730 hrs, the terrorists again lobbed 02 grenades in quick succession from the windows of the house on the front side which exploded and wrapping the entire area in dust and smoke. At the same time, one terrorist moved from the building on to the main corridor and tried to make good his escape by firing indiscriminately towards Constable Sreenivasulu P. Sreenivasulu unmindful of his personal safety, retaliated swiftly and accurately with effective fire andneutralized the heavily armed terroristin the corridor, whowas later on identified as UsmanHyder r/o Pakistan. Meanwhile, on the other side, the second terrorist fired indiscriminately from the left side window of the target house and triedto escape but Gopal Ram and his buddy Latif Ahmad Bhat who were in position behind the waist high wall barely managed to evade the fire, but picking themselves up after the onslaught, they found their bearings and retaliated with equal vigour eliminating him in the process. The killed terrorist was later identified as Showkat Ahmad Khan, r/o Handoora, u/PS Tral. By this time the target house was completelyPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 689 up in flames bringing down the roof of the target house. The fire brigade was called toextinguish thefire. Subsequent search of the target house led to the recovery of charred bodies of 02 terrorists along with one American made M-4 Sniper rifle, one AK-47 Rifle, magazines, matching ammunition and other incriminating material. Usman Hyder was the dreaded JeM commander (A++ Category) and leader of the highly motivated sniper team of JeM, and nephew of the Pakistan basedJeM Chief Moulana Masood Azhar.

This was one of the most challenging operation as the SFs were up against two well trained and heavily armed foreign terrorists who had spread havoc in the area. The only way to get over the threat was by eliminating the threat itself. Shri Gopal Ram, Asst. Comdt. exhibiting exceptional leadership qualities and tactical acumen manoeuvred the men under his command and managed to accomplish rare success. He kept his cool and demeanour under the most trying situation and came out trump. Constables Latif Ahmad Bhat and Sreenivasulu P. displayed raw valour, nerves of steel and exemplary courage under persistent onslaught not giving up till they succeeded in eliminating the terrorists and thereby completely wiping out the threat of sniper attacks on the SFs.

For their rarest of rare act of gallantry, exceptional valour, raw grit and highest degree of commitment and dedication to duties, under imminent threat to life, in keeping with the highest traditions of the Force, I recommend Shri Gopal Ram, Assistant Commandant (IRLA-8567), No. 065341084 Constable Latif Ahmad Bhat and No. 135279797 Constable Sreenivasulu P forthe award of Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG).

In this operation S/Shri Gopal Ram, AC, Latif Ahmad Bhat, CT and Sreenivasulu P, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 29/10/2018.

(No. 11020/78/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 123-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

In the background of the attack on Yatris during Shri Amarnathji Yatra 2017 at Batingo in Anantnag, South Kashmir, the sensitivities were extremely high during the Yatra in 2018. To prempt any such attempt by the militants, 24X7 laterals were placed on the National Highway and cut off timings for move of the Yatris was enforced strictly. A new concept of vehicle tracking through RFID was introduced to maintain close observation on move of each and every Yatri/tourist vehicle. However, despite the numerous measures, the threat remained very high. Moreover, the passing of the Yatri convoy through Anantnag town presented a massive challenge for the SFs due to the large flow of population and busy market stretches on New Khannabal -Pahalgam (NKP) road.

Taking advantage of this situation, militants planned to move close to the route of the Yatra with the intention of striking at the Yatra on the slightest opportunity. The Intelligence agencies were however keeping close track and input was received on the night of 24th July 2018 regarding movement of two militants in the Lal Chowk area of congested and busy Anantnag town. This was further developed and the location pointed to their halt in a civilian house in MehmanMohalla. Accordingly, joint CASO was planned with 1 RR, SOG JKP and 40 Bn CRPF. Immediately on receipt of information, Comdt 40 Bn detailed A coy of 40 Bn, Counter Insurgency {(CI (Ops)} Coy under command of Shri Tilak Raj, Asstt Comdt and after briefing directed them to move for the location. Sensing large scale law and order problems, Comdt- 40 Bn being Nodal Officer also detailed five coys in the vicinity of the target house to keep stone pelters at bay and prevent them from reaching close to the suspect house with the intention of disorienting the troops and helping the militants to escape.

On reaching the location Shri Tilak Raj moved his troops close to the suspect house bound by bound. It was located in a very congested and densely populated area and thus extremely inconvenient from operation point of view. The chances of collateral damage were high. The narrow lanes and bylanes did not allow deployment of a large team. Hence, Shri Tilak Raj focussed on tactical placement of troops at the most vantage points and for the purpose he chose just two persons for deployment under his command as other SFs also formed part of the operational team. He placed Force No: 911324756 Head Constable Ratan Singh and Force No: 065112414 Constable Birender Singh in front part of the target house on the left in the inner cordon. There was hardly any proper cover except the depression of the drains and the bends at the690 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I —SEC. 1 corner of the houses. There was high probability of fire from the militants in this area. Nevertheless, it was important to cut off the area as militants stood a strong possibility of opening fire on the troops to make good their escape from this zone. Thus, the party took frontal position sideways in tactical manner to minimize threat of militant fire and readied themselves for action.

Firstly, announcement was made on PA system for the to surrender. However, the terrorists responded by opening heavy fire in the direction of the deployed troops. Shri Tilak Raj, Asstt Comdt and his team faced a volley of bursts and just moved out in time to save themselves. However, undeterred by the terrorist's fire he shouted to his buddiesRatan Singh and Birender Singh to fire back at the terrorists and himself made immediate counter-fire by leading the troops from the front. The instant reaction from Shri Tilak Raj, AC, Head Constable Ratan Singh and Constable Birender Singh prevented a major damage to the troops and forced the militants to move back inside the building to save themselves. However, all of a sudden the terrorists surprised by appearing again and lobbed grenades in the lanes where the troops were deployed.The troops took immediate cover and somehow managed to prevent any casualty. It was now clear that small arms fire would not cause any problem for the terrorists. After some deliberation and there being no possibility of firing CGRL/MGL due to constraints of space, it was decided to fire UBGL.This was a risky affair as both the firer and the troops giving coveringsupport had to move out from their safe positions. Shri Tilak Raj, AC took up the challenge.UBGL was fired by the troops of RR in which the CRPF party consisting of Shri Tilak Raj, Ratan Singh and Birender Singh gave significant covering fire in the process encountering grave risk to their lives. After heavy fire was put on the target house, there was no response from the militants. It was expected that the two rooms on the first floor of the building had been significantly damaged and the chances of the terrorists remaining alive was remote.

After taking stock of the situation, it was decided to conduct search of the building by forming joint search teams. Accordingly, Shri Tilak Raj, Asst. Comdt., Head Constable Ratan Singh and Constable Birender Singh also formed one search team alongwith others from RR and SOG JKP. The teams moved tactically inside the building. During the search as the team closed in, all of a sudden the terrorists fired on the troops but the alert team of Shri Tilak Raj reacted quickly and neutralized one of them. Subsequently, the other terrorist was also killed by the other search party.

After a tedious search of the debris, bodies of two terrorists were recovered along with 01 AK-47, 01 INSAS Rifle, 04 magazines, mobile phone and camera etc. The operation was successfully concluded at around mid-day without any civilian casualty and the troops reached their respective locations safely. Throughout the operation, an intensely hostile mob continued to pelt stones in the vicinity of the encounter site but the law and order troops managed to keep them away and with tact prevented any collateral damage.

The neutralised terrorists were identified as Bin Yamin Dar (Cat-B) r/o village Bonpora, Khudwani (Kulgam) and Abid Hussain Bhat (Cat-C) r/o village Sazan, Dist Doda (Jammu) of LeT outfit. The militants were highly motivated and associated in a host of attacks on the civilians, police and SFs.

The operation at Lal Chowk was a challenging operation and extremely sensitive in view of the then ongoing Shri Amarnathji Yatra. The militants were however neutralised in a very well co-ordinated and synergised operation.This was possible because of the active involvement of CRPF troops which faced the daunting situation with exemplary courage and professionalism. The application and use of UAV of 40 Bn CRPF was the high point of the operation as it helped the SFs to track the movement of the militants in the building and finally nail them. The familiarity of the CRPF team with the area including the umpteen lanes and by lanes on account of their daily deployment also proved advantageous in taking crucial tactical decisions in the initial stages of laying of inner cordon. The architects of the successful operation were Shri Tilak Raj, Asst. Comdt., Head Constable Ratan Singh and Constable Birender Singh who showed tremendous grit and exemplary valour in the operation by providing effective fire of 22 rounds, 15 rounds and 16 rounds respectively from their AK-47 rifle despite considerable threat to their lives.

In this operation S/Shri Tilak Raj, AC, Rattan Singh, HC and Birender Singh, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 25/07/2018.

(11020/79/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 124-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

The tremendous thrust created by the Security Forces during the Shri Amarnathji Yatra 2018 in maintaining security in Kashmir Valley did not allow any opportunity to the militants to target the SFs/Yatris during the two month long event. This created a lot of pressure on the militants and they saw the upcoming Urban Local Bodies (ULB) and Panchayat Elections as an opportunity to put their nefarious designs into act by moving close to the National Highway.

On 14th Sept 2018, in the evening after dusk, Comdt 18 Bn CRPF received intelligence input from own sources that during move of some militants along the stretch of National Highway they were attacked by a bear in which one of the militants was apparently injured. It was further contended that the militants were on the lookout for shelter and assistance to the injured. In view of the input and sensing a likely encounter on confirmation of location of the militants, Comdt 18 Bn CRPF alerted his troops for action on short notice.

At around 0015 hrs on 15th Sept, SSP Kulgam informed Comdt 18 Bn CRPF regarding movement of 3-5 militants in Chowgam village under PS Qazigund in Kulgam and requested him for operational troops to conduct CASO. The input was corroborated with the developing information already available with Comdt 18 Bn. Accordingly, Shri Henzang, Comdt briefed Unit QAT and CTT and quickly despatched them for the location. The troops reached village Chowgam around 0040 hrs and joined troops of 9 RR and SOG JKP. Considering the sensitive operation at hand, DIG (Ops) CRPF Anantnag also directed one HIT of Range QAT to join the operation under command of Shri Pravat Kumar Behera, Asstt Comdt. The Range QAT was placed in the inner cordon in the South-west direction and Unit QAT 18 Bn in South-east. The remaining stretch was occupied by 9 RR with SOG. CTT under command of Second-in-Command 18 Bn was deployed in the outer cordon near the target house to pre-empt any law and order situation in the absence of regular LO troops at the site at that point in time. Subsequently, DIG (Ops) CRPF Anantnag also reached the location and after an analysis of the ground situation briefed the troops on likely scenario and desired action.

Around 0100 hrs, on identification and confirmation of the target house when the search party moved close after laying of the initial cordon, all of a sudden the militants hiding inside opened fire on the troops. In the process two jawans of 9 RR got injured. In order to save the injured jawans, it was extremely important that they were evacuated immediately without loss of time. The sudden reaction by the militants disoriented the troops. However, in this hour of crisis, Shri P K Behera, Asstt Comdt, Range QAT Commander without any delay and without caring for his personal safety rose from his position and alongwith his buddies Force No: 005030245 Head Constable G Vijay Kumar and Force No: 125075344 Constable Showkat Ahmad Ratherfired a volley on the target house from where militants had targeted the troops. This had the desired effect as the militants had no option but to stop the fire and move back inside the target house.

Simultaneously, P K Beherashouted to the Unit QAT personnel of 18 Bn CRPF placed contiguously in the cordon for help to rescue the injured jawans. Upon his call, Force No: 055070997 Constable Nasir Ahmadand Force No: 135252763 Constable Narsapure Rakesh Prabhakar of 18 Bn responded immediately and without caring for their personal safety jumped across the perimeter wall of the target house into the compound to reach the injured personnel. Concurrently, other members of the team synchronised and provided effective covering fire to enable Constables Nasir Ahmad and Narsapure Rakesh Prabhakarto safely evict the injured personnel of RR. This was a risky and challenging task but was effected successfully in a well-coordinated action by Range QAT and Unit QAT 18 Bn.

On confirmation regarding presence of militants in the suspect house, the inner cordon was strengthened further. P K Behera, Asstt Comdt alongwith Head Constable G Vijaya Kumar and Showkat Ahmad Rather who were in the inner cordon in South-west direction did not have any proper cover as the perimeter fencing of the house extended only from the South-east to North direction. However, it was extremely important that despite the threat the positions were maintained so as not to allow space to the militants to slip away. This was crucial aspect and challenging as well as it was continuously raining. P K Behera alongwith his team braved the odds and stuck to their ground and positions.

It was subsequently revealed that militants had made 4 males and 2 females hostages inside the house. After some deliberation between the senior officials present at the site, the militants were approached through mobile and an appeal was made to let go the civilians. Initially, the militants seemed reluctant but after lot of persuasion they finally let off the civilians.

No sooner had the hostages come out of the target house, than militants started heavy fire on the troops from all sides of the target house.From the array of fire, it was now clear that there were minimum 4-5 militants holed up in the building. Range QAT and Unit QAT personnel retaliated the fire vehemently and forced the militants to rescind thereby nullifying any possibility of their escape. Thereafter, intermittent firing continued from both sides for nearly three hours. It was decided to blast the target house by laying IED. Again both the Range and Unit QAT personnel provided necessary thrust by giving covering fire support. In the process a part of the house was damaged. After this firing stopped from the side of the militants. However, due to incessant rains and poor visibility it was decided to wait till morning to commence search of the target house.

At break of dawn, the militants again started fire in different directions. In the process a volley of burst was fired on P K Behera, Asstt Comdt and his buddies. However, they had a narrow escape and immediately changed their positions. P K Behera identified position of one of the militants at a window in the target house. He immediately made a plan to target the militant with multi-grenade launcher (MGL) with assistance from his buddies. This was not an easy task as in order to fire from MGL one had to come out in open and it also required covering fire support. Shri P K Behera firstly changed his position towards the right side. G Vijay Kumar who was well trained in MGL volunteered for the act. On directions from Range QAT Comdr, he fired two grenades from his MGL in quick succession and in the processP K Behera and Constable Showkat Ahmad Rather ably supported him by movingout in the open to give covering support even while they clearly risked fire from the militants on themselves. In the process, one grenade hit right at the window neutralising the militant positioned there instantly. The valiant act by the team resulted in a great achievement for the Forces.

In order to blast the remaining portion of the target house another IED was blasted with the assistance of covering fire from Range and Unit QAT. Resultantly, the complete house collapsed. Joint search teams were formed to clear the debris. It so happened that when the search was in progress, two militants who were still alive fired from within the debris. However the duo of Unit QAT 18 Bn namely Constables Nasir Ahmad and Rakesh Narsapure who were closest to them quickly retaliated and neutralised the militants on the spot before they could cause injuries to the search teams.

The neutralised militants were identified as Gulzar Ahmad Padder r/o village Taki Gopalpora in Kulgam, Faisal Rashid Rather r/o village Yamrach, Yaripora, Zahid Ahmad Mir r/o village Okay in Kulgam, Zahoor Ahmad Bhat r/o village Nagnaad in Kulgam and Masroor Ahmad Bhat r/o village Fathepora, Anantnag. All were Category "A" militants. The significant recoveries included 04 AK-47 rifles, 04 AK-47 magazines, 01 UBGL and 05 UBGL grenades. Despite a very hostile mob all around the encounter site, the LO troops tactfully and professionally dealt with the situation and ensured safe withdrawal of the operational troops.

The operation at Chowgam was a major achievement for the SFs in the run up to the ULB and Panchayat Elections in the Valley. The movement of the militants in large group indicated their sinister designs. A large credit for the successful operation can be attributed to the rapid response and forceful retaliation by CRPF troops which faced the daunting situation with exemplary courage and professionalism and also took timely initiative in conducting the rescue operation for the injured personnel. The architects of the successful operation were Shri P K Behera Asst. Comdt. Head Constable G Vijaya Kumar and Constable Shaukat Ahmad Rather from Range QAT Anantnag and Constable Nasir Ahmad and Constable Narsapure Rakesh Prabhakar from Unit QAT 18 Bn CRPF who showed tremendous grit and exemplary valour in the operation by providing timely and effective fire of 39 rounds, 02 grenades & 22 rounds, 32 rounds, 19 rounds and 25 rounds respectively from their AK-47 rifles.

For display of exceptional and conspicuous bravery, raw courage, utmost dedication and commitment to duty in the face of grave and continuous threat to their personal lives, Shri PravatKumarBehera, AssistantCommandant (IRLA-9590) of 40 Bn CRPF, Force No: 005030245 Head Constable G Vijaya Kumarof 24 Bn CRPF and Force No: 125075344 Constable Shaukat Ahmad Rather of 163 Bn CRPF of Range QAT CRPF Anantnag andNo: 055070997 Constable Nasir Ahmad andNo: 135252763 Constable Narsapure RakeshPrabhakarof 18 Bn CRPF are strongly recommended for award ofPolice Medal for Gallantry(PMG).

In this operation S/Shri Pravat Kumar Behera, AC, G Vijaya Kumar, HC, Shoukat Ahmad Rather, CT, Nasser Ahmed, CT and Narsapure Rakesh Prabhakar, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 15/09/2018.

(No. 11020/80/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 125-Pres/2020—The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/Police Medal for Gallantry(Posthumously) to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 22nd Sep' 2018, late evening, on receipt of a credible input about the terrorists of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) holding a meetingin Tantre Mohalla, Village-Aripal u/PS Tral in Pulwama District of J&K to execute fidayeen attack onPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 693 security forces camps in Tral, a joint Cordon and search Operation (CASO) was planned and launched on 23rd in the wee hours at about 0400 hrs by 180 Bn, CRPF, 42 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and Special Operations Group (SOG) of JKP, Tral.

Tral sub-division of district Pulwama in South Kashmir has traditionally been a stronghold of various terrorist outfits with foreign terrorists of JeM tanzeem virtually establishing their hideout in the mountainous region of North Tral. The thick forest and difficult terrain provides a safe and natural shelter for the terrorists. Village Aripal, under PS Tral is located to the north of Sub-Division Tral on Tral-Satura road approximately 18 kms from Tral and 01 km from the camp of A coy of180 Bn CRPF.Aripal village is a large village divided into several mohallas. To the east of village Aripal lies the Zarilwain mountain and to the west lies the Wantiwan mountain ranges covered with dense pine forests and on the southern side of the village flows the Aripal nallah. The village is situated at a height of 5,940 feet from mean sea level.

Acting on the inputTantre Mohalla of village Aripal was cordoned off by D/42 RR,A/180and SOG Aripal by 0530 hrs. When the cordon was completed a team of QAT/180 under command Shri Devendar Mohan Sharma Dy. Comdt, F/180under command Insp/GD H.M. Mehato and 01 Platoon of HQ/180 with Shri Rajesh Kumar, Comdt-180along with SDPO Tral reached the village Aripalat about 0600 hrs.At about 0615 hrs, the search teams of CRPF, RR and civil police were formed to search the houses and interrogate the inmates of Tantre Mohalla. As the search party led by Shri Devendar Mohan Sharma, Dy Comdt along with his buddy No.075005505 Constable Mahesh Kumar Meena approached the house of Fayaz Ahmad Dar and questioned him, he appeared nervous and scared.He was also hesitant to enter his own house and during interrogation revealed that late on the previous night an armed Pakistani terrorist had barged into his house and was still present in his house. On confirmation of the presence of armed terrorist in that particular house, the cordon around the house was further strengthened by QAT-180with Shri Devendar Mohan Sharma and a team of42 RR and SDPO Tral and his party. At about 0800 hrs an announcement was made for the terrorist to come out of the house and surrender before the forces. However it met with no response. At about 0820 hrs few Tear Smoke Shells were fired inside the house to induce the terrorist to come out of the house but the terrorist responded with a small burst of fire which was duly retaliated by Shri Devendar Mohan Sharma and his buddy in close cordon. At about 0845 hrs few MGL rounds were fired inside the target house. Thereafter there was no fire from the adversary. Since there was no response, taking cover of tactical bullet proof shield 02 army jawans moved towards the entrance corridor of the house to locate the terrorist. As the duo reached near the staircase, a grenade was lobbed by the terrorist who had taken position behind the stairs compelling the jawans to withdraw. At about 0915 hrs 02 UBGL rounds were fired byDevendar Mohan Sharma inside the house, but by then the terrorist had changed his position and he fired on the troops from the windows by changing position continuously. The terrorist was also lobbing grenades towards the troops who had positioned themselves behind the compound wall in a bid to approach the house.

Thereafter Devendar Mohan Sharm exhibiting initiative and seizing the lead along with his buddy moved closer to the target house and fired 02 UBGL rounds from different directions inside the house. After the UBGL fire, once again there was no fire from the adversary and neither any movement was observed within the house.It was now assumed that the terrorist had been killed in UBGL fire. At about 1030 hrs after waiting for some time a joint teamwas sent to the window to locate the body of the terrorist. Barely had the jawan peeped in through the window, that, the terrorist fired a burst almost injuring the trooper.At about 1100 hrs the plan was reviewed by Shri Rajesh Kumar, Comdt-180, CO-42 RR and SSP Awantipora and it was decided to use flame thrower available with QAT/180 Bn and 42 RR from two different sides simultaneously, so that the terrorist did not change the position inside the house.At about 1200 hrs, when thea team of 42 RR was spraying the fuel inside the house, the terrorist lobbed two grenades through the window behind compound wall of neighborhood house which incidentally did not inflict any damage. At about 1215 hrs, he was noticed with AK-47 shiftinghis position swiftly to another room and this was the only time that the heavily armed terrorist was observed moving in the well fortified house. At this juncture, Devender Mohan Sharma leading from the front displaying extraordinary courage and raw valour along with his buddy Mahesh Kumar Meena decided to move forward near a huge walnut tree from where he could target the terrorist.The terrorist, meanwhile observing their movement fired at the duo. The bullets just missed its target as the duo immediately ducked.However, not to be cowed down andwith utter disregard to their personal safety they again moved ahead and succeeded in locating the terroristinside the room from where he had fired at them. Without giving an opportunity to the adversary, Devendar Mohan Sharma and his buddy Constable Mahesh Kumar Meena acted swiftly and put effective targeted fire andneutralized the heavily armed terrorist.Subsequent search of the house led to the recovery of the dead body of the slain terrorist alongwith 01 AK Rifle, 02 Magazines and 30 rounds of matching ammunition. The killed terrorist was identified as Adnan r/o Pakistan (Category-A) a highly trained JeM commander.

However, on 5th January, 2019No. 075005505 Constable Mahesh Kumar Meena was severely injured while gallantly fighting with armedterrorists in an encounter at Tantre Mohalla, Village Aripal, PS Tral and attained martyrdom on 14th January 2019 while undergoing treatment.

In the operation, Shri. Devendar Mohan Sharma, Dy. Comdt displayed exceptional qualities of a leader, great professional acumen and tactical skills, subjecting himself to the highest risk in trying to hunt down the terrorist. Late Constable Mahesh Kumar Meena displayed audacious courage, strong determination and a steely resolve, unmindful of his own safety while executing the task despite being pitted against a highly trained and determined terrorist.

In recognition of their conspicuous act of gallantry, indomitable courage, firm resolve and unflinching commitment to duties in the face of grave adversity, in keeping with the highest traditions of the Force.

In this operation S/Shri Devendar Mohan Sharma, DC and Late Mahesh Kumar Meena, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 23/09/2018.

(No. 11020/81/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No.126-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry (Posthumously) to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

An intelligence input was received from a reliable source about the movement of a group of 10-12 Armed Maoists in the Hilly/ forest area of village Barubeda, U/ Ps- Galudih/Boram, and Distt: East Singhbhum (Jharkhand). Accordingly, an operation was planned to verify the input and nab the Maoists. One young platoon from each Coys C, E & G/193 Bn, and Jharkhand Police SAT with F/169 Bn launched an area domination cum search operation in thearea of Sukalara, Dalapani, Jhantipahari, Kudlungh,-Baniagoratola, Barubeda Hilly Area of Distt: East Singhbhum.

On 11/07/2018 at about 0905 hours when the team of G/193 Bn U/C Sachin Kumar, AC was searching the area, suddenly, a volley of fire came upon them. Maoists have ambushed the troops. Immediately, troops took the position and started retaliating the Maoists firing. Exchange of fire took Place for almost 02-03 minutes. The heavy retaliationfrom the troops forced Maoistsfor the retreat. Meanwhile, on the nearby axis, as per the Ups plan Young platoon of C/193 Bn U/C Hilarious Barla, AC, along with C/ Police was tactically searching the area when they heard the gunfight. They gotalert and continued with their task. At about 0915 hours While the troops of C/193 were advancing in Dalapani Hilly/ forest area, Maoists opened indiscriminate firing upon them. Troops immediately took the position.

Maoists were firing from their hidden positions, making difficult for the troops to locate them. The constraint was barring the troops in launching an effective counterattack against the Maoists. Time was slipping out from the troops as they were caught in the killing zone of the Maoists. The only chance of surviva1 was to locate the enemy and counter attack them. The chances of survival_of the troops were infirm when a ray of hope flared up as CT/ GD_Nirmal Ghosh could locate the exact place from where the Maoists were firing. Other men were not able to do so,due to heavy firing from Maoists and thick foliage, Constable Nirmal Ghosh was carrying 51 MM Mortar; a high trajectory weapon that needs open space for effective firing. It was thick vegetation around and Maoists were at a close distance which prevented him from firing from his Mortar. Meanwhile, other troops were struggling against the Maoists as they could not locate their positions. At this juncture, Constable Nirmal Ghosh took a bold move as he decided to leave his cover and go to their fellow troops to indicate the positions of Maoists, enabling them to launch an effective counter attack before the Maoists run over through their defense.

It was a fatal move as the bullets were flying around and Maoists were watching every activity of troops. Yet, defying all the odds, Constable Nirmal Ghosh went to his nearby soldiers indicating the Maoists firing position. He hopped from one soldier to others, shouting and motivating them to eliminate the Maoists. Since verbal indications on Maoists position was not proving very effective for his fellow soldiers, he took the UBGL of Constable Anshurnan Kumar and fired a grenade at the enemy. This act of Constable Nirmal Ghosh enthused the men to pinpoint the enemy's firing place and bring effective fire on them. But, as afraid, the Maoists noticed the open movement of Constable Nirmal Ghosh. They directed their firepower towards him, and a bullet hit the daredevil that proved -fatal. He succumbed to his injuriesand attained martyrdom,- but, not before making a favorable ground for his fellow troops. He made supreme sacrifice at the altar of duty while serving the motherland and protecting his brothers in arm. The sacrifice of Constable Nirmal Ghosh made the way for launching an effective counterattack against the Maoists. The audacious counter-attack from the troops forced the Maoists to run on their toes.

Troops who were trapped in the killing zone could survive and fight back only because of the valor and gallant action of Constable Nirmal Ghosh.Had he not shown the troops, the firing position of Maoists, it would have been impossible to launch the counter-attack/break the ambush.

In this operation Late Shri Nirmal Ghosh, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 11/07/2018.

(No.11020/82/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special DutyPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 695 No. 127-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 26th October, 2018 at about 0330 hrs, on receipt of a credible input about the presence of heavily armed terrorists in VillagePazalpora,PP-Watergam,u/PS-Dangiwacha, PD-Sopore, and Distt. Baramulla (J&K), Quick Action Team (QAT) of92 Bn u/c Sh. J.P Singh, Second-in-Command of 92 Bn reached village Pazalpora and joined the troops of 22 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) and Special Operations Group (SOG), Sopore. Meanwhile, troops of 177 Bn, 179 Bn & Range QAT Baramulla also reached the said village. Thereafter, a joint operation was planned by Commandant 92, 177, 179Bns of CRPF. CO-22 RR and SSP, Sopore and accordingly inner cordon was placed by troops of 92 Bn on the northwest side, 177 Bn on the south- western side, 22 RR in the northeast & SOG, Sopore on thesoutheast side. Outer cordon was placed by troops of 179 Bn and remaining troops of 22 RR & SOG, Sopore. Range QAT Baramulla was kept reserve for room intervention/ search in case the situation arose. While the initial cordon was being placed, the terrorists sensed the presence of troops and fired indiscriminately targeting joint troops which was effectively retaliated by the troops. However, in the initial onslaught, 01 jawan of 22 RR received bullet injuries who was immediately evacuated to the hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries. In the meantime, DIG (Ops) NKOR Baramulla also reached the encounter site and supervised the operation. After the initial setback cordon was further tightened and cut-offs were placed on the likely escape routes. Intermittent fire continued for some time, though thereafter a lull descended. The cordon was kept in place till first light, whenit was decided to evacuate trapped civilians and search the target house & nearby houses. As the search/rescue operation was highly risky, Range QAT Baramulla under command young officer Shri Manish Kumar, Asst. Comdt was detailed to carry out room interventionandsearch along with QATs of 22 RR & SOG, Sopore. Joint search parties exercising due caution evacuated all the trapped civilians safely. Thereafter, announcement was made on the public address system asking the terrorists to surrender, but it met with no response. Therefore search of target house, adjacent houses and nearby orchards/vegetated area was planned to locate the terrorists. When the search operation was on, as the search parties moved towards one suspect house, the terrorists opened indiscriminate fire on the search parties. Manish Kumar who was leading the search party alongwithhis buddy No.135250127 Constable Kakde Nishant Arun were alert to the eventuality and tactically assuming position retaliated the fire. However, taking advantage of the undulated ground and natural cover, the terrorists moved out of the house and took position in the vegetated area available outside. Since the position of the terrorists was obvious, exchange of fire ensued. Manish Kumar and his buddy Kakde Nishant Arundisplaying exemplary courage a steely resolve, tactically and stealthily advanced towards the terrorists. However, one of them breaking free advanced tactically towards the cordon placed by QAT-92 Bn and QAT-177 in an attempt to break the cordon while the other terrorists provided covering fire. The alert cordon parties noticed the approaching terrorist and opened fire compelling the terrorist to beat a hasty retreat. The terrorist was now trapped between the search party led by Manish Kumar and his buddy Kakde Nishant Arun and troops of 92 and 177 Bns in the inner cordon. The terrorist had carefully taken cover of undulating ground thereby effectively avoiding the SFs fire. The moves of the terrorist was being closely observed by No. 005071609 Head Constable Rajinder Kumar of 92 Bn and No. 065176245 Constable Ajay Kindo of QAT 177 Bn, who were the last men in their parties and accordingly informed their respective commanders. They found themselves in a position to launchand neutralize the terrorist. Having got the nod from their Commanders both Rajinder Kumar and Ajay Kindo left their designated positions and tactically advanced towards the position of the terrorist stealthily. As they inched very close to the terrorist's position, he was alerted and opened fire which both Head Constable Rajinder Kumar and Constable Ajay Kindo managed to evade, at the same time they knew that they were at striking distance from the terrorist. It was now or never. Knowing very well the hazard of taking on an armed terrorist, the duo decided to take the gamble. Both of them moved into directions so as to flank the terrorist from two sides so as to confuse him and take him by surprise. The moment the fire from the adversary died down the duo came out of the cover and fired at the terrorist grievously injuring him. In desperation firing indiscriminately, he tried to crawl back where Manish Kumar and his buddy Kakde Nishant Arun were already in position. After a brief see-saw battle in which heavy fire was exchanged, the quartet managed to eliminate the terrorist. The second terrorist was engaged and neutralized by the troops of 22 RR and SOG, Sopore. During the subsequent search of the area, dead bodies of During search dead bodies of two slain terrorists was recovered. They were identified as Usama and Zahid, both of Pak origin having allegiance to Lahkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) terrorist outfit. Recoveries included two AK-47 rifles, 07 magazines, 161 rds of ammunition, two hand grenades, knife, wire cutter, mobile phones and many other incriminating material.

The operation was highly risky as the SFs were up against well armed and highly trained terrorists capable of wreaking havoc. However, Shri Manish Kumar, Asst. Comdt, displayed exemplary leadership qualities and great professional and tactical acumen in leading his men courageously against a well trained adversary. Constable Kakde Nishant Arun, Head696 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I —SEC. 1 Constable Rajinder Kumar and Constable Ajay Kindo displayed extraordinary bravery, raw valour, great tactical skills and unflinching commitment to duties while engaging and neutralizing the terrorist.

Therefore in recognition of the their extraordinary bravery, conspicuous act of gallantry, unflinching devotion to duties in the face of grave adversity in keeping with the highest traditions of the Force, I hereby recommend Sh. Manish Kumar, Assistant Commandant (IRLA – 9032) of 3 Bn, No.135250127 Constable Kakde Nishant Arun of 176 Bn CRPF, No. 005071609 Head Constable Rajinder Kumar of 92 Bn & No 065176245 Constable Ajay Kindo of 177 Bn, CRPF for the award of Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG).

In this operation S/Shri Manish Kumar, AC, Rajinder Kumar, HC, Kakade Nishant Arun, CT and Ajay Kindo, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 26/10/2018.

(No. 11020/83/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 128-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/1st Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 30 April 2018, on receipt of a credible input at around 0900 hrs from the Civil Police about the presence of 2-3 terrorists including the dreaded local terrorist Samir Tiger of Hizbul Mujahidin (HM) in the area of village - Drabgam u/PS- Rajpora, District-Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), a joint Cordon and Search operation (CASO) was planned by SSP Pulwama, Second-in-Command of 182 Bn CRPF and Commanding Officer (CO) of 44 Rashtriya Rifles (RR). Samir Tiger had joined HM in 2016 and was largely involved in recruitment, trainingand initiating local boys to terrorism. He was also instrumental in planning attacks on security forces and was involved in eleven such cases in Pulwama district. The security forces were in constant hunt for him. It was just the previous day that he had challenged an officer of the SFs in a video clip threatening him of direconsequences. Drabgam is a large densely populated village with a number of lanes and by-lanes and houses closely built. Pulwama in general and Drabgam in particular has always beenhostile towards the security forces which was an even greater challenge. Drabgam is surrounded by forests and apple orchards all around, thereby providing appropriate cover and escape routes to the terrorists.

On arrival in Drabgam, the security forces had to initially tackle the large mob that had gathered to disrupt the operation which had been the tradition off late. Shri Kumar Mayank, Second -in-Command, 182 Bn, directed the law and order components to swiftly deal with the aggressive mob and simultaneously a close cordon was laid around 08-10 suspected houses. The suspect house was a double storied concrete structure surrounded by an almost 6 ft high tin sheet fence and an iron gate. When the troops were laying the cordon, the terrorists opened fire from the double storied building confirming their presence Major Rohit Shukla of 44 RR and his buddy were victims of this unexpected onslaught and were injured. Both of them were immediately evacuated from the site and further dispatched to the hospital. Since the presence of the terrorists were confirmed, the cordon was squeezed further by Kumar Mayank, who was the senior most officer present on the spot. Troops of 44 RR took positions behind the target house on the north, troops of 182 & 183 Bn were deployed on the east and west of the target house. One Bullet proof bunker was placed at the main gate blocking any kind of passage if the terrorists made an attempt to escape and more bunkers were placed to block other escape routes as well . In order to avoid civilian casualties, the civilians within the cordoned off area were evacuated to safer confines. The terrorists tried to obstruct the evacuation process and fired at the BP gypsy of Kumar Mayankbeing used to evacuate the civilians. However, no harm was caused to anyone. Thereafter, announcements were made on the public address system asking the terrorists to surrender but it had no impact and firing continued from the target house. The forces also retaliated the fire.Shri.Rajbardhan, Asst Comdt of 183 Bn, CRPF alongwith No. 880977743 Assistant Sub Inspector J.C. Borahand No. 075340365 Constable Mohd.

Hussain had taken position on the first floor of a school building facing the target house which provided them with a clear view.Meanwhile, it was decided by all available commanders unanimously that Kumar Mayank, 2-I/C alongwith his buddy No. 075222229 Constable R. S. Tomar and some elements of 44 RR would try to enter the target house from the rear side by crossing 10 fit wide Nala.

Accordingly, the party proceeded to the rear from the west of the suspect house. After removing the tin sheets erected as a fence when they enteredthe premises another volley of firea grenadegreeted them injuring one jawan of the RR on his left hand forcing them to retreat as the injured jawan had to be evacuated to safety. Amidst volley of bullets and lobbing of grenades, Kumar Mayank and his team evacuated him to safety. Since the target house was not being impacted by any kind of fire, troops of RR proceeded to plant IEDs. Covering fire was provided by the team of Rajbardhan from the front and by Kumar Mayank and his team as by now they had occupied the upper portion of a residential house on the Eastern side. Heavy fire with various weapons including UBGL was put onthe target house setting the target house ablaze. However, that did not dampen the spirits of the terrorists specially Samir Tiger who was a veteran and had made good many an escapes from the encounter site. However, the resultant heat and the constant bombardment was increasingly becoming perilous to withstand. The compound of the house had apple trees and piles of logs scattered all around. Taking whatever natural cover was available, two terrorists ran out of the house firing indiscriminately and frantically advanced towards a structure embedded with the fence housing a small shop. Kumar Mayank, his buddy ConstableR. S.Tomarand the party could observe their movements and took targeted shots at the fleeing terrorists. It hit one of the terrorist but somehow with the assistance of his colleague both of them managed to reach the upper portion of the shop and took position from where they could also have a view of the security forces. Meanwhile, Rajbardhan and his team consisting of J.C. Borah and Mohd. Hussain who were placed bang opposite the target house at a dominating spot could observe the advancing terrorists. The moment both of them approached the upper portion of the shop Rajbardhan and his team let out a burst of bullets severely debilitating the terrorists further. Despite sustaining injuries, they continued to fire and also lobbed grenades from very close range.However, emerging out of the initial shock of the grenade blasts, Kumar Mayank,Rajbardhan,J.C. Borah, R.S.Tomar and Mohd. Hussain fired intensely at the terrorists. When there was no firing from the adversary for a prolonged period of time, a joint search party comprising of 182 & 183 Bns of CRPF, 44 RR and Civil Police carried out the search of the partially demolished house, the shop as well as the adjacent premises, resulting in the recovery of dead bodies of two slain terrorists. They also recovered two rifles one AK-56 and one AK-47, magazines, 77 rds of 7.62 ammunition, one Chinese grenade and otherincriminating material. The slain terrorists were identified as Samir Ahmad Bhat @ Tiger @ Faisal category A++ of HM outfit, r/o Village Drubgam, PS Rajpora, District Pulwama and Mohd. Aqib Khan, r/o Rajpora, P.S- Rajpora, District Pulwama.

In this operation S/Shri Kumar Mayank, 2-IC, Rajbardhan, AC, Jadav Chandra Borah, ASI, Mohd. Hussain, CT and Ravindra Singh Tomar, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 30/04/2018.

(11020/85/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 129-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/1st Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

In the aftermath of two tragic incidents on 11 March 2017 and 24 April 2017, in which 37 CRPF jawans were martyred, a special joint operation (CRPF & DRG/STF Chhattisgarh Police) named "Ops Prahar" was launched from698 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I —SEC. 1 23/06/17 to 25/06/17 to curb the offensive of Maoists in the area. Troops of 201 CoBRA were given the area of village Tondamarka of Sukma district; alleged PLGA Battalion HQ. The area is at around 20 km aerial distance from any of the SF camp. DRG/STF was given separate target area of village Badekedwal; around 4 km from Tondamarka.

As per the plan, four parties of 201 CoBRA under overall command of Shri Rakesh Rao, Commandant, left for the target area at 0400 hrs on 23 June, 2017. Troops searched their target areas whole day and busted one Maoist camp. The Maoists managed to escape from the camp. In the evening, they took a halt (LUP) near the target area. Maoists used this opportunity/time for re-grouping/planning to hit back.

On 24th June 2017 troops left their LUP and continued the search of the area.At around 0830hrs Maoists in large number encircled the troops and started heavy firing upon them. Troops took their positions and started retaliating the Maoist's offensive. At around 1020 hrs SP Sukma informed that some of DRG/STF troops have been hit in the encounter with the Maoists and need to be evacuated/airlifted immediately but they are under Maoist's seize. Helicopter has been indented to evacuate the injured, subject to secure landing conditions. An urgent re-enforcement was required for evacuation of the injured troops as well as to save the lives of others. Maoists have surrounded the DRG/STF troops. The heavy firing from the Maoists have forced the troops for the shelter leaving meagre scopes to retaliate.

At this call, the party commander of 201 CoBRA directed SAT (Special Action Team) along with two teamsto approach the given area and re-enforce the DRG/STF troops. Sensing the gravity of the situation Commandant 201 CoBRA decided to lead the SAT. Shri Jitender Sahu, DC and Shri Banbari Lal, AC, were leading the other two teams. CoBRA troops approached the target GR in parallel formation. Team of Shri Banbari Lal, AC, covered the left flank and Team of Shri Jitender Sahu, DC, covered right flank. Front was covered by SAT. When the CoBRA party was about 200 yards short of marked place for Helicopter, it reached over the area and started hovering over the given GR near village Tondamarka. On the other hand, Maoists were continuously firing on the troops.

On noticing the re-enforcement party close to them, Maoists started heavy firing upon the left flank and front portion with SAT.Undeterred to the fatal threats, Sh Banbari Lal, AC held the ground and retaliated the Maoists offensive with full might. Leading from the front, he kept on advancing towards the injured troops. The audacious counter attack forced the Maoists to run for their lives. Maoists took a back for a while. Using the opportunity Sh Banbari Lal, AC with his team reached to injured troops. Meanwhile Maoists again regrouped themselves and started heavy firing upon the CoBRA teams.Maoists were firing from well-defended positions leaving lesser scopes for effective counter attack from the SFs. Helicopter was still hovering and waiting for the favorable moment for landing on the ground at this moment.

Constable Kamlesh Singh, Constable Deep Chand and Constable Shofiqul Islam of SAT, on getting indication from their commander suddenly came out of their covers and opened a barrage of bullets on the Maoists. This unexpected counter attack awestricken the Maoists as their fire subsided for a while. Using this moment, Shri Jitender Sahu, DC with his Team also reached close to the DRG/STF troops and established contact with them.

The heavy firing from both sides was preventing the landing of helicopter. Helicopter was still hovering above the marked GR as pilot could not get any indication from the DRG/STF to land. It was the time when Shri Jitender Sahu, DC took the initiative. He directed the troops to fire in heavy bunches upon the Maoists. The ploy worked. Due to the heavy fire from the troops, Maoist's firing subsided. Amid the raining bullets Shri Jitender Sahu came forward in the open, waiving his hand, giving indication to Helicopter to land. He did not bother about his own life to save the lives of injured personnel. Under the cover fire of the CoBRA teams, injured were taken to helicopter and were evacuated from the site. The gravity of the situation may be adjudged from the fact that the Helicopter got 03 bullet hits and had to undertake emergency landing at Sukma.

After evacuating the injured personnel, troops focused on countering the Maoists attack. The concentrated counter attack from the troops forced the Maoists for another retreat. Troops continued the search and moved towards their assigned areas.Maoists in small groups were following the troops from distance and waiting for the opportunity to hit them again. While DRG/STF troops were moving through the Durma village, Maoist again surrounded them and started heavy firing upon them. Again, CoBRA troops were requested for the re-enforcement. Rising to the call, two CoBRA teams reached the area and augmented the counter attack against the Maoists. Maoists again retreated from the site but this time with different plans.

After rescuing DRG troops second time near Durma village when two CoBRA teams were moving ahead, Maoists tried to encircle them. However, they were taken by surprise by the tactical acumen of Commandant 201 CoBRA. Team commander had already positioned unit SAT and two teams in that direction anticipating the tactics of Maoists. Before the Maoists could encircle the rescuing CoBRA Teams, they were intercepted by SAT and two other teams of CoBRA. A fierce gunfight ensued between the CoBRA troops and the Maoists. Displaying exceptional courage and gallant action Shri Rakesh Rao led the counter attack. Under the inspiring leadership of their commander, Shri Jitender Sahu, DC, Shri Banbari Lal, AC, Head Constable Akhilesh Pandey, Constable Kamlesh Singh, Constable Deep Chand, Constable Shofiqul Islam and Constable Lekh Raj Sharma fought from the front and inflicted heavy damages on Maoists.

Maoists tried to flee away from the encounter site by taking their dead and weapons along. Amid the heavy cover fire, Maoists were dragging the dead bodies of their fallen cadres. Head Constable Akhilesh Pandey and Constable Lekh RajPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 699 Sharma noticed a dead body of Maoists being dragged by their fellow cadres. The duo adopting fire and move tactics approached the dead Maoists but could not recover his body, but, the weapon ( SLR). Meanwhile Constable Kamlesh Singh, Constable Deep Chand and Constable Shofiqul Islam adopting fire and move tactics could recover dead body of One Maoist. Dead body of Maoist was later on identified as UikaLakku @ Mahesh Kawasi,Section Comdr of PLGA Bn No.1. The audacious counter attack devastated the core strength of the Maoists and forced them to run for their lives. It was a day long battle with the defamed PLGA Bn No.1 of Maoists. This Maoist unit had been involved in many tragic incidents against the SFs and considered to be the strongest among their formation. After thrashing the elite unit of Maoists in their own citadel, troops reached Burkapal camp next day i.e on 25/06/2017at around 0700 hrs.

In this operation S/Shri Rakesh Rao, Comdt., Jitender Sahu, DC, Shofiqul Islam, CT,Banbari Lal, AC, Akhilesh Pandey, HC,Kamlesh Singh,CT, Deep Chand Singh, CT and Lekh Raj Sharma, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 24/06/2017.

(No. 11020/92/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 130-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/2nd Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry/5th Bar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 04th May 2018, an actionable intelligence was received regarding the presence of terrorists in Gasi Mohalla, Chattabal, Srinagar, J&K. To nab the ultras, a joints team of Valley QAT and SOG, Srinagar led by Sh. NareshKumar, AC, Sh. L. Ibomcha Singh, AC, and Sh. Ravi Sharma, AC left for the target area. Taking due cautions and moving tactically troops laid a strong cordon around the suspected houses. After that, a cluster of 15-20 suspected multi-storied houses was indentified for search. These clusters of houses were very closely located and connected.

As the party was tactically moving within the inner cordon, they noticed the suspicious movement. Acting swiftly Sh. L. Ibomcha Singh moved in that direction to chase the suspect when a volley was fired upon him from one of the suspected houses. Sh L. Ibomcha Singh was hit by the bullet on his right foot. He was immediately evacuated from the site by the fellow troops. Meanwhile, announcements were made over the public address system asking the terrorists to lay down their arms but went in vain.

Seeing no response from the terrorists, troops started searching the houses one by one. One terrorist was hiding in a double storied structure arid had safely ensconced on the first floor and therefore could keep a bird's eye on the activities outside. As the search team reached close to the target house they were fired upon heavily. Taking appropriate cover search party retaliated the attack. A heavy encounter ensued between the troops and the terrorist. Finding him cornered and unable to sustain the onslaught of troops, the terrorist, in a bid to escape from the site stormed out of the house firing heavily upon the troops. Sh Naresh Kumar sensed the plan of the terrorist. He, with his buddy constable Vijay Prakash Yadav, intercepted the terrorist and fired upon him to prevent his escape. Meanwhile, Sh Ravi Sharma and constable Anish Kumar Singh also reached close to the terrorist and augmented the counter-attack. Before the terrorist could plan any further move the above four brave hearts dashed forward in the line of fire and in a fierce exchange of fire killed the first terrorist.

The killed terrorist was identified as "LeT" commander, Shawkat Ahmad Tak. The battle was not over yet as there were two other terrorists holed up in the house and were firing on the troops.

Heavy exchange of fire continued between the terrorists and the troops. Any attempt to move closer to the target house was fiercely resisted by the terrorists with a very heavy volume of fire. At about 0800 hrs, MGL fire was employed by the commanders, however, the same could not make any significant impact as the terrorists were well entrenched. It was then decided to use CGRL to make an opening in the target house. It was a very risky move as the troops were close and to fire from the CGRL, one has to come out from the covers. At this juncture, rising to the call of duty, RL commander Head Constable Mahipal Singh accepted the challenge. Exhibiting great tactical skill and professional acumen, he fired HEAT and HE rounds on the target house. While providing cover fire to the CGRL team from adjacent house, Constable Younis Ahmad Dar and Devendra Kumar got severe splinter injuries but didn't budge from their location and displaying indomitable resolve, nerves of steel and unflinching commitment held their positions.

Due to multiple openings made by the precise firing of CGRL, movements of terrorists were now clearly visible in the building. As the law &;order situation at the encounter site was aggravating and became highly volatile, at around 1130 Hrs it was decided by the commanders to conduct room intervention to flush out the terrorists from the target. Subsequently, a small team was formed for the purpose. Taking the terrorists on surprise, the team entered the target house from the adjacent building using ladders to bridging the gap between the two buildings. As per the plan, the team led by Sh Naresh Kumar and Sh Ravi Sharma with constable Vijay Prakesh Yadav and constable Anish Kumar Singh started clearing the room taking due caution. While moving ahead, troops sensed the presence of terrorists near the stairs. Adopting fire and move tactics they lobbed hand grenades towards the stairs. Finding the troops close to them, terrorists retaliated the attack with a return grenade attack followed by a heavy volume of firing. Undaunted to the fatal threats, troops held their nerves and retaliated the attack with full might. In the close combat, displaying raw courage, troops dashed forward and took the terrorists in the head-on battle. The audacious counter-attack resulted in the killing of the remaining two terrorists namely Fayaz Hamal and Abu Hamza (FT).

The achievement of the joint forces in neutralizing the==03 dreaded terrorists of "LeT" could be attributed to the tremendous grit, determination, exemplary valor and never say die spirit of the CRPF.

In this operation S/Shri Naresh Kumar, AC, Ravi Sharma, AC, Vijay Prakash Yadav, CT, Anish Kumar Singh, CT, Younis Ahmad Dar, CT, Devendra Kumar, CT and Mahipal Singh, HC displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 05/05/2018.

(No. 11020/188/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 131-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry(Posthumously) to the under mentioned officer of Railway Police Force (RPF):—

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

Shri Jagbir Singh Rana, Constable S/o Sh. Chander Singh Rana was posted on at RPF Post, Adarsh Nagar. During his deployment at this post, he performed his duties with full dedication and integrity.

On 21.04.2019, Constable Jagbir Singh Rana was deployed at Signal No. 07 in the shift of 20.00 hrs to 08.00 hrs. As per independent witness Sh. Rajender, on 21.04.2019 around 21.30 hrs. three children were sitting on the Railway track between Adarsh Nagar and Delhi Azadpur Station (Annexue-A). A train on the same track from Delhi side was approaching towards the children. Constable Jagbir Singh Rana anticipated the life threat to those children and tried to alert the children but children couldn't hear the alert and continued moving to cross the track. In exemplary display of bravery, he immediately rushed towards the children without caring for his life. In an attempt to save the lives of the children he got fatally hit by the speedily approaching Kalka Shatabadi Express (Train No. 12012). The statement of Loco Pilot of 12012 Kalka Shatabdi Sh. Anil Kumar also substantiates the exemplary display of courage and devotion to duty by Constable Jagbir Singh Rana wherein for saving the precious life of 03 children, he himself got fatally hit by 12012 Kalka Shatabdi and made supreme sacrifice.

Thus, by not caring for his life, he displayed exemplary bravery as a member of the Force, which shows his devotion and dedication to duty and excellence as a member of the Force.

The brave act of Constable Jagbir Singh Rana in line of duty was extensively covered by print & electronic media and social networking sites. By doing supreme sacrifice, he has kept and displayed the highest traditions of the Force and has set an exquisite example for others to follow.

After his last breath, eyes of Constable Jagbir Singh Rana were donated to eye-bank with consent of his family.

In this operation Late Shri Jagbir Singh Rana, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 21/04/2019.

(No. 11020/205/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No.132-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Shashatra Seema Bal (SSB):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

On 27.07.2018 an information was received about the presence of hard core Maoists of BJSAC including Vijay da @ Nand Lal Manjhi, Balbeer Mahato @ Roshan Da, Tala Da @ Sahadev Rai @ Agni alongwith 10-15 Arms cadre in the forest area of Kachhua Kander under Police Station-Gopikander, District- Dumka (Jharkhand). This area has strategic importance due to bank of Bansloi river and its location near the border area of District Godda and Pakkur. Since long BJSAC is trying to increase its influence in this area. The Kachhua Kander area has dense vegetation with thick under growth. The terrain is undulating, hilly with rough gradient which make the area hostile and challenging for conducting operation there into. However, difficulties could not deter the pathos of the real soldier.

An operation was planned by 35th Battalion, Dumka and State Police Jharkhand to nab the Maoists present in Kachhua Kander forest area. To carry out this denting and challenging task responsibility was assigned to SAT (Small Action Team) of 35th Battalion under Command of Shri Narpat Singh, Asstt. Commandant. The two Coys namely A-Coy Narganj, Police Station - Kathikund, District- Dumka (Jharkhand) and D-Coy Gopikander, Police Station- Gopikander, District- Dumka (Jharkhand) were kept as reserve/re-enforcement. The overall supervision of the operation was under Shri Parikshita Behera, Commandant, 35th Bn. SSB, Dumka (Jharkhand) and SP Dumka.

The SAT led by Shri Narpat Singh, Asstt. Commandant consists of 22 well trained and highly motivated commandos with one District Police personnel.

As per the plan the SAT left Bn. HQ Dumka at 1330 hrs on 27.07.2018 & LUP was taken near Narganj for the night. On 28.07.2018, Shri Narpat Singh AC & Shri Parikshita Behera, Commandant 35th Bn. SSB, Dumka keep on planning & verifying the location of the naxals in that area. On same day at 1400 hrs SAT (Small Acton Team) assembled at COB Narganj and moved by Vehicles up to Jungle area of Amdiha village for covering the time and distance so that Naxal can be nabbed before the dark in the rainy season. SAT de-bussed near jungle of Amdiha village which was 4 (four) Kms. from Kachhua Kander and two teams were constituted for action in two flanks. Team-1 under the command of Shri Narpat Singh, Asstt. Commandant moved tactically from left i.e. North-East side towards Kachhua Kander area via a hilly track of Mahuagari forest by avoiding the normal routes and Team-2 moved tactically from Right side i.e. North-West of Kachhua Kander Jungle.

Though it was raining heavily both team continued moment through dense forest and hilly area and Shri Narpat Singh, Asstt. Commandant maintained regular contact with Team-2, Commandant and DC (Ops). Team-1 reached on the top of the hill, named Sarkhipahar. At about 1500 hrs, CT (GD) Ganesh Singh Rana noticed a few Bivouacs made with Plastic sheets at the foot hill of Sarkhipahar which was 01 (one) Km. away from Kachhua Kander village towards East in the deep forest. On further close observation by the help of Binocular, the Team-01 commander saw a group of Approx- 10-15 personnel in the camp who were engaged in training like activities. He also observed that they were in possession of automatic weapons and few were in OG uniform.

The commander briefed Team-1 to proceed tactically towards their camp. Shri Narpat Singh, Asstt. Commandant contacted to Team-2 and shared the information and instructed to advanced tactically in the direction of702 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I —SEC. 1 Naxal camp. Team-1 started moving towards the Naxal camp tactically and reached at about 1600 hrs. about 50 Mtrs. from the camp. The motive of the Commander was to nab the Naxals but suddenly Team-1 came under a heavy volley of fire. As was expected, Maoist probably had noticed the presence of Security Forces and were prepared to attack them. Maoists, from their well-occupied defense camp area, opened indiscriminate fire upon the troops. Shri Narpat Singh, Asstt. Commandant, Head-Constable (GD) Pradeep Kumar and Head Constable(GD)Bheem Singh immediately retaliated Maoists firing giving the Maoists lesser opportunity to cause any damage to Security Forces (SFs). The rest of the troops also retaliated to the Maoists fire. Shri Narpat Singh, Asstt. Commandant ordered Team-1 to hold the position and retaliate the fire in the control manner. Heavy firing with loud noise from Naxals was continued. Had the Team-1 not retaliated they would have been killed in heavy firing by the Naxals. Shri Narpat Singh, Asstt. Commandant saw few Naxals positioned behind thick trunk of a tree and they were targeting Team-1 from left side. It was realized by Shri Narpat Singh, Asstt. Commandant that if these Naxals are not neutralized they will definitely cause heavy damage to Team-1.At that time Shri Narpat Singh, Asstt. Commandant decided to attack on Naxal by advancing from left side to suppress the Maoists fire. He alongwith HC (GD) Pradeep Kumar (Team-1 2 I/C) crawled in rough terrain and in heavy volley of fire without thinking of themselves and for saving the life of their team members. They crawled from left flank to take position by crossing the broken and undulating land. They reached behind a wooden log and again challenged the Armed Maoists to surrender but Maoists increased the volume of fire, then Shri Narpat Singh, Asstt. Commandant and HC (GD) Pradeep Kumar retaliated to neutralized the Naxals.

Due to this decision, the fire which was coming from thick trunk of tree got stop and Naxals were forced to leave their well tactically settled camp. The exchange of fire was continued for approximate 50-60 minutes.

After the firing had stopped, Shri Narpat Singh, Asstt. Commandant contacted to Team-2 and ordered to both teams to move forward tactically and to start searching of Naxal camp. During search, the team found two dead bodies of Naxals and also recovered 01 SLR, 01 HE Grenade, Magazine-04 and a lot of assorted ammunition. Then both teams re-orged and matter was reported to higher Headquarters.

In this operation S/Shri Narpat Singh, AC, Pradeep Kumar, HC, Bheem Singh, HC and Ganesh Singh Rana, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 28/07/2018.

(No. 11020/94/2019-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty

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No. 133-Pres/2020 —The President is pleased to award the Police Medal for Gallantry/3rdBar to Police Medal for Gallantry to the under mentioned officers of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF):—

S/Shri

Statement of service for which the decoration has been awarded

Village Pidiya in Bijapur District of Chhattisgarh has earned a name of infamy not due to any of its inherited factor but for the CPI (Maoists) who chose it to be their west Bastar division headquarters. The only misfortune of this gullible village is that it lies near to the district boundary of Bijapur and Dantewada and is surrounded by thick forest with poor or no line of communication. Reaching to the area is a herculean task for the police forces and state administration and taking the advantage, the CPI(Maoists) run their writ and frequently organize meeting in the villages of the area to engage innocent villagers in furtherance to their nefarious designs.

On 22 June 2017, an intelligence input about the presence of an armed group of CPI(Maoists) under the command of commander Ganesh of West Bastar division was received by Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command, 204 cobra, who, immediately embarked on a mission to neutralize the armed group. He chalked out a plan in consultation with Superintendent of polices' of Bijapur and Dantewada and further discussed the plan with DIG (Ops) Bijapur, CRPF. After minutely analyzing the sparse of the area, vegetation, rivulets, strength of CPI(Maoists), core areas of CPI(Maoists) dominance and other operational requirements, five strikes comprising of mixed elements of security forces were formed to be inducted into the area for the task and each strike was given a separate area for search.

Accordingly, Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command, 204 Cobra moved from Basaguda base camp with two teams of 204 Cobra and component from DRG and STF on 22 June 2017 at 1610 hours towards the target area. Reaching toPART I —SEC. 1] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) 703 the core area, as said earlier, was not an easy task and the troops had to make two night halts in the jungle, while keeping their movement a surprise. The troops under command Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command reached close to their target i.e. village Pidiya only on 24 June 2017. And as was expected, moving into the core area without getting noticed was a near impossible thing, the CPI(Maoists) who had got the whiff about the movement of security forces opened heavy fire from a tactically advantageous position at the team of Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command while it was negotiation a rivulet at around 1040 hours.

That was the moment which a battle hardened trooper cherishes and craves for. An enemy with his gun blazing at the front securely entrenched behind covers, and a challenge to neutralize it. Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command who had been toiling for two days to make contact with the enemy of the nation, immediately came in action and ordered the troops to retaliate with full intensity and vigour and make a tactical advance. But it seemed that the CPI(Maoists) had no dearth of ammunition on that day. A slight movement from the troops was meted with intense fire putting their lives under risk. One such attempt was him-self made by Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command with his buddy constable Vipin Kumar, but the moment they moved out of the covers a barrage of bullets flooded their surroundings and they had a narrow escape. Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command was not the one to let the CPI (Maoists) have the day of which they would boast for long for taming the security forces.

He immediately planned and made a second move wherein he send two teams, one each to the either flanks of Maoists, while him-self lying low at the centre with some of his intrepid fighters. The moment the two teams reached to the flanks and opened fire at the Maoists, the Maoists too engaged them in a fierce gun-fight. That was the moment which Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command was waiting for. Seeing that the Maoists had got engaged in a gun-fight with the flanking teams, he dashed forwarded along with constable Vipin Kumar and other intrepid troopers, without caring for their own lives and throwing all precautions in air, togain an advantageous ground just at the face of enemy ambush. Before the enemy could understand the game-plan of Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command and fire at them, he and his team had succeeded in occupying the ground. But only half of the battle had been won by then. The second half of the battle of uprooting the enemy and giving them a scar was yet to be fought.

The same game-plan was yet again played by Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command. Knowing that to hit the enemy from a close distance it was imperative to press the enemy from one side and hit the other, he ordered the troops at right to open heavy fire and make a tactical advance. The Maoists fell to the trap and as they concentrated their fire on the advancing troops at right, Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command and constable Vipin Kumar crawled ahead from their covers and with their precise fire inflicted injury to two of the Maoists, who, after getting injured were noticed fleeing backwards into the core of ambush party. Perplexed by the presence of troops at such a close distance, the Maoists opened fire at Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command and had constable Vipin Kumar not pulled him behind the covers just in the nick of time, Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command would have received severe bullet injuries. Thereafter in daring act bravery, Sh. Ashok Kumar, Second-In-Command and constable Vipin Kumar threw themself open to the fire of Maoists with their gun raining bullets and succeeded in killing a Maoist who after getting bullet injury just fell flat on the ground.

The pressure of ever advancing troops, sustaining of injuries and the dead body of one of their cadres forced the Maoists to rethink their strategy and they soon switched to their old strategy of fleeing from the area with the help of supportive fire of each other. The troops chased the fleeing Maoists for some distance but the Maoists fled taking advantage of their familiarity with the area and escape routes. During the search of the area, Dead Body of a Maoist along with one SBML Rifle, one Tiffin bomb, four empty cases of SLR Rifle, fourteen empty cases of AK-47, One Hand Grenade, Electric wire, 50 gm of Explosive and other uniform items were recovered.

For making the operation a big success the credit goes solely to Shri Ashok Kumar, Second-in-Command and Constable Vipin Kumar. During the encounter they advanced towards the enemy without caring for their own lives and never looked for covers. They fought very bravely and with valour and showed courage of the highest order in a fierce encounter which took place at a close distance. In the close combat the death always remained just a whisker away from them. A slight miss would have cost them with their lives. To honour the brave act in the face of grave threats to lives and also for displaying valour and gallant of highest order.

In this operation S/Shri Ashok Kumar, 2-IC and Vipin Kumar, CT displayed conspicuous gallantry, courage and devotion of duty of a higher order.

These awards are made for gallantry under Rule 4(i) of the Rules governing the award of Police Medal and consequently carries with it the special allowance admissible under Rule 5, with effect from 24/06/2017.

(No. 11020/107/2018-PMA)

(No. 18004/01/2020-CA-II)

JAGANNATH SRINIVASAN Officer on Special Duty704 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA, OCTOBER 3, 2020 (ASVINA 11, 1942) [PART I —SEC. 1 MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE & FARMERS WELFARE (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, COOPERATION & FARMERS WELFARE)

New Delhi, the 13th August 2020

No.8-65/2017-PP.II —In partial modification of Government of India, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare Notification No.8-97/91-PP.I dated 26.11.1993, as amended from time to time, it is hereby notified for general information that the following entries shall be included by way of addition or replacement under the relevant heads specifying officers, by designation, who are authorized to inspect, fumigate or disinfect and grant phytosanitary certificates in respect of plants and plant materials intended for export to other countries,which require such certificates: —

II. STATES/UTs:

Tamil Nadu

(v) Deputy Director of Horticulture,

Department of Horticulture, Madurai(TN) (Tamil Nadu) {Code No. 'S'(TN) 4}

(vi) Deputy Director of Horticulture,

Department of Horticulture Coimbatore(TN) (Tamil Nadu) {Code No. 'S'(TN) 5}

(vii) Deputy Director of Horticulture,

Department of Horticulture, Thoothkudi(TN) (Tamil Nadu) {Code No. 'S'(TN) 6}

(viii) Deputy Director of Horticulture,

Department of Horticulture, Trichy(TN) (Tamil Nadu) {Code No. 'Nadu

ATISH CHANDRA Joint Secretary

Note: The original Notification was issued by Department of Agriculture & Cooperation vide Notification No. 8-97/91-PP.I dated 26.11.1993 and subsequently modified vide Notification No. 8-97/91-PP.I dated 25.11.97, Notification No. 8-70/98- PP.I dated 30.09.1999, Notification No. 8-86/2000-PP.I dated 06.11.2001, Notification No. 8-86/2000-PP.I dated 06.05.2002, Notification No. 8-86/2000-PP.I dated 30.05.2002, Notification No. 8-33/2003-PP.I dated 7.6.2004, Notification No.8-217/2004-PP.I(pt.) dated 11.05.05, Notification No.8-217/2004-PP.I(pt.) dated 20.06.05, Notification No.8-217/2004- PP.I(pt.) dated 8.12.05, Notification No.8-217/2004-PP.I(pt.) dated 9.1.06,Notification No.8-217/2004-PP.I(pt.) dated 26th December, 2011, Notification No. 8-217/2004-PP.I(pt.) dated 30th January, 2013,Notification No. 8-217/2004-PP.I(pt.) dated 6th July, 2015,Notification No. 8-217/2004-PP.I(pt.) dated 21st June, 2016, Notification No. 8-217/2004-PP.I(pt.) dated 12th January, 2017 and Notification No. 8-65/2017-PP.II dated 13th April, 2017 and Notification No. 8-65/2017-PP.II dated 11th August, 2017 and Notification No. 8-65/2017-PP.II dated 14th March, 2018, Notification No. 8-65/2017-PP.II dated 10th April, 2018, Notification No. 8-65/2017-PP.II dated 10th May, 2019 and Notification No. 8-65/2017-PP.II dated 16th July, 2019, Notification No. 8-65/2017-PP.II dated 10th December, 2019 and Notification No. 8-65/2017-PP.II dated 21st February, July, 2020.

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