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War hero dies in road mishap


The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Himachal Pradesh Edition

Chandigarh, December 25
For a soldier who braved enemy bullets and was decorated with the nation's second highest gallantry award, losing his life while merely standing on the roadside is a strange twist of fate.

Brig Rattan Nath Sharma was killed after being allegedly hit by a speeding vehicle while he was waiting for a bus near Kharar, near here, yesterday. He succumbed to his injuries today while being taken to the PGIMER.

On a complaint by his son-in-law, Gurpreet Singh, the Kharar police has registered a case of negligent driving against Pankaj, driver of the vehicle. A case under Sections 279 and 304-A, IPC, has been registered at the City Kharar police station.

According to information, Brigadier Sharma belonged to Palampur and had come to Kharar for some property matter. He was knocked down by the vehicle yesterday and rushed to a local hospital. It was only after the police found a diary on his person containing the telephone number of a CSD in Palampur that his identity could be ascertained.

He is survived by his wife, a son, who looks after the family estate in Palampur, and two daughters, both doctors. His daughter and son-in-law reached here at around midnight after the family was informed about the mishap.

Brigadier Sharma was commissioned into the Punjab Regiment in August 1949, and decorated with the Maha Vir Chakra for commanding a battalion of the Punjab Regiment in the Poonch Sector of Jammu and Kashmir during the 1971 Indo-Pak war. He had been tasked to capture a strong and fortified enemy post situated on a dominating feature. The then Lt-Col Sharma encouraged his men by his presence and courage to achieve the given task.

His cremation is scheduled to take place with full military honours at his native place in Palampur on December 26.

RIP....
 
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Where, there temperature is low but morale is high....

Most of north India is shivering when night temp. merely dips around 3 degree C, at the same instant of time some brave son of mother India is vigilant at the border out posts in order to safeguard the security of our nation the officers & Jawans of Indian Army, ITBP, BSF,CRPF stands tall guarding the frontiers of our motherland all through the staggering rugged mountains with an astounding variety of shaky heights ranging between 10000 to 21000 feets from mean sea level, chilly locales where mercury plummets to 45 degree C below zero, bottomless gorges, enchanting ravines, tempestuous rivers, perfidious glaciers, craggy steeps, lurking natural hazards thats a common theatre of operation for the Jawans on the guard.......while we dug deep in our warm quilts they face the death defying frigid winds piercing through their mortal human body but their indomitable spirit remains sky high....... Keeping the highest tradition of Indian armed forces our soldier is true to his salt, steadfast in duty and undeterred by adverse conditions, man-made or nature made. Most of the officers and Jawans spend a lion share of their services in such sort of hostile terrain....... ​
 
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