HIGHEST 81 GALLANTRY AWARDS TO J&K POLICE
The Jammu and Kashmir Police have bagged the highest 81 of the 215 gallantry awards getting the police medals for gallantry on the eve of the Independence Day while total 926 police personnel have been decorated with different medals — 631 for meritorious service and 80 awarded President's police medals for distinguished service.
The CRPF bagged the second highest 55 medals for gallantry, followed by 23 to Uttar Pradesh Police, 16 to Delhi Police, 14 to Maharashtra Police and 12 to the Jharkhand Police. Maximum 123 awards have gone for gallant action in J&K, 29 for gallant action in the naxal-hit area and eight for action in the North East region.
Those who bagged the prestigious President’s police medal for distinguished service include Aijaz Rasoo Ganai from J&K, Additional DGP and Police Wireless DGP Retesh Munni Kumaarr from Pune, Additional DGP (Admin) and DGP Sanjeev Kumar Singhal, Deputy SP Mrs Sushma Shailendra Chavan from Pune, Police SI Vijay Londhe from Nashik, and Assistant SI Ganesh Mehtras from Latur, Maharashtra. Two bagging the medal from Rajasthan are Sanjay Kumar Shrotriya, DIGP, CM Seecurity and Sunil Dutt, ADGP Telecommunication.
The Police medal for meritorious service has gone among others to 12 in Jammu and Kashmir — SSPs Randeep Kumar, Tahir Saleem, Romesh Kotwal, Manoj Ku
mar — ACB Bureau Inspector Vikram Sharma, MTO Manjeet Singh, Inspector Steno-PA of DGP Shashi umar, Kupwara SI Ghulam Ahmad Payer, SI Gulzar Hussain Khan, ASI Suraj Khan, Head Constable Mrs Rukhsana Kosar and constable Milap Chand.
In Maharashtra, 39 police personnel bagged the merito
rious service awards. They include Asst IG Vinayak Badrinarayan Deshmukh, Pune DCP Shirish Sardeshpande, SP Tushar Chanddra Kant Doshi, Railway Police DSP Narendra Kumar Kisanrao Gaikwad, Pune ACP Sunil Bhagwan Yadav, and SRPF Commandant Mohd Ilyas Mohd Sayeed Shaikh, Aurangabad.