Major Mukund Varadarajan and Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh- Ashok Chakra 2015 awardees

Q.  Name the two army personnel who laid down their lives combating militants in Kashmir Valley, were awarded posthumously the highest peacetime military honour, the Ashok Chakra, by President Pranab Mukherjee on Republic Day’15?
- Published on 23 Jan 15

a. Major Mukund Varadarajan and Lieutenant Neeraj Kumar Singh
b. Naik Mukund Varadarajan and Colonel Neeraj Kumar Singh
c. Subedar Mukund Verma and Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh
d. Major Mukund Varadarajan and Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh

ANSWER: Major Mukund Varadarajan and Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh
 
Major Varadarajan, who was an officer in the Rajput Regiment of the Indian Army, killed three terrorists in an encounter in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir in April last while Naik Neeraj Singh leading a search operation in general area Gurdaji of Kupwara district in August came under heavy fire from terrorists.

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