Mohit Sharma (soldier)
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Mohit Sharma (soldier)
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Major Mohit Sharma was an Indian Army Officer who was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peace-time military decoration. Maj Sharma was from the elite 1st Para SF. 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
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Indian Army Special Forces Officer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohit_Sharma_(soldier)
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2014-10-01T12:02:22Z
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2024-08-28T05:06:32Z
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