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Balidan Diwas
22 January 2026
Place of Supreme Sacrifice
Khanni Top, Bhaderwah–Chamba road, Doda, Jammu & Kashmir
Biography
Pradumna Lohar served as a Sepoy in the Indian Army. On 22 January 2026, while on operational movement in Jammu & Kashmir's Doda district, the armoured Casspir vehicle he was travelling in lost control on the frost-covered Bhaderwah–Chamba road at the 9,000-foot Khanni Top and plunged into a 200-foot gorge. He made the supreme sacrifice in the line of duty.
Sources
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