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Indian Army

E.K. Niranjan, SC

Lieutenant Colonel · Madras Engineers Group

Shaurya Chakra
Detailed Card

Balidan Diwas

3 January 2016

Place of Supreme Sacrifice

Pathankot

State of Origin

Tamil Nadu

Unit / Regiment

Madras Engineers Group

Operation

Pathankot Counter-Terrorism Operation

Biography

Lieutenant Colonel Niranjan Kumar was a bomb disposal expert with the National Security Guard. He was martyred during the Pathankot terror attack in 2016 while defusing a grenade. He was posthumously awarded the Shaurya Chakra.

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