Under the COVID issue, A great act of Heroism by our forces
during recent encounter in Kashmir is totally forgotten by media....
SAD & BROKEN IN TEARS I WRITE THIS ......
They did What LIONS couldn't !!
Their Looks & courage far better than any Hero...
They engaged 5 heavily armed terrorists at Almost Point blank
ranges
Only A Superhuman can do what Paratrooper Amit Kumar did He took
15 bullets head on before he killed a terrorist. He was in his twenties. As
bullets whizzed & ripped through his body...He marched on like a LION
charging at the terrorists with his friends literally scaring the shit out of
the terrorists who frantically try to jam their trigger ...He was like a raging
LION...
The terrorists had infiltrated across the Line of Control last
week. Movement had been noticed near fence on April 1/Wednesday from drone
imagery. This was confirmed on the ground with footprints in the snow not far
from the LoC. On Wednesday itself, search parties comprising troops from the 8
Jat Regiment were launched. On Wednesday afternoon, there was a brief exchange
of fire after which the terrorists fled their position abandoning some of their
bags, containing ammunition. The area was quickly cordoned off.
At dawn on April 2/Thursday, troops from 41 and 57 Rashtriya
Rifles joined the operation. Troops once again established contact with the
terrorists at about 4.30pm. The terrorists returned heavy fire before slipping
off one by one from a ledge. The chase continued, with contact established
twice more on April 3 and 4.
On April 4/Saturday, two squads of the 4 Para (Special Forces)
were deployed for a forward staging to the nearest battalion headquarters, and
from there to Rangdoori, Guguldara and Teen Behak areas of Jumgund. They needed
to chopper it in as the battalion remains cut off by winter snow. The Dhruv
helicopter dropped them off on a hill feature. The intention was to conduct a
search operation from top down. The SF troops used quadcopter drones at this
point to try and pinpoint precise locations of the 5-6 terrorists.
Over the day, intermittent exchanges of fire continued from 2
locations, and then narrowed down to just one location. Tracking movements
across two days, it became clear that the terrorists had been cornered into a
part of Kupwara’s dense Zurhama forest, not far from the Jumgund village. Final
contact with the terrorists was established on Saturday evening.
Subedar Sanjiv along with Paratroopers Amit and Chhatrpal tried to
close in with the terrorist location. Tracking footsteps in the snow, the three
men tragically realised too late that they were on a cornice — an overhanging
mass of hardened snow at the edge of a mountain precipice. It broke under their
weight and they fell into a nallah, a frozen mountain stream, right into where
the terrorists were hiding. This led to a close quarter fight in the most
literal sense. Paratrooper Amit sustained 15 bullet injuries while Subedar
Sanjiv and Paratrooper Chhatarpal also took heavy fire. They managed to kill
two of the 5 terrorists before succumbing to their injuries. The other two men,
Havildar Davender and Paratrooper Balkishan rushed forward to extract their
three comrades, charging into the exchange, quickly eliminating two more
terrorists. A fifth terrorist who fled from the spot was killed by troops from
8 Jat.
In the words of an officer familiar with details, “As luck would
have it, where they fell, the militants were sitting right there. This led to a
firefight at virtually point blank range. I have to give it to the training
standards of the SF guys. Inspite of the fall, all five terrorists were killed.
The complete squad was lost.”
Two soldiers succumbed to their injuries on Sunday evening after
being airlifted to Srinagar’s Army hospital. The remains of the other 3
commandos and the terrorists were found within just two meters of each other.
They fought well till their last breath, even after 3 of them had
fractured bones after falling down from 150 feet. Made sure none of the tangos
survived before breathing their last...
Every second of yesterday's encounter was captured with the
accompanying Quadrocopter Drone... The entire 4 Para HQ saw it & they feel
proud the squad didn't tarnish their dreaded reputation...
They will be posthumously awarded for their bravery and this
Heroic Op will go down in the books as an inspiring lesson for future
probies...
Yet I am proud , that we are able to witness raw courage &
bravery...We salute their family , especially their mothers for giving INDIA
...LIONS!!
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