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Tarikh Episode 380

Tarikh is a daily program in which we present you with incidents and stories of noteworthy persons of Indian History in Hindi. In this edition of Tarikh, Nikhil narrates the story of Major Mohit Sharma (13 January 1978 – 21 March 2009). A commando of elite 1st Para SF,Major Mohit was an Indian Army Officer who was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime military decoration. On 21 March 2009, he engaged in an encounter with terrorists in the Hafruda forest of the Kupwara sector of Jammu and Kashmir. He killed four terrorists and rescued two teammates in the process, but sustained multiple gunshot wounds. For this act, he was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, which is the highest peacetime military decoration in India. He was awarded two gallantry decorations earlier in his career. The first was the COAS Commendation card for exemplary counterterrorism duties during Operation Rakshak, which was followed by a Sena Medal for gallantry after a covert operation in 2005.

In 2019, Delhi Metro Corporation renamed the Rajendra Nagar metro station as "Major Mohit Sharma metro station". A movie called Iftikhar is also being made based on the Major sharma story.
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