{"id":36822,"date":"2018-01-25T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=36822"},"modified":"2018-01-26T18:05:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T12:35:43","slug":"jyoti-prakash-nirala-likely-to-be-first-airman-to-receive-ashok-chakra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/jyoti-prakash-nirala-likely-to-be-first-airman-to-receive-ashok-chakra\/","title":{"rendered":"Jyoti Prakash Nirala likely to be first airman to receive Ashok Chakra after death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Garud commando who was martyred in the Chanderger operation on last year is also likely to be awarded the second highest gallantry award, Kirti Chakra.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Defense Ministry is likely to award the highest peacetime gallantry award, Ashok Chakra to martyred Indian Air Force\u2019s Garud Special Force operative Corporal Jyoti Prakash Nirala, who played a key role in eliminating top leaders of<a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/lashkar-e-taiba\"> Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) <\/a>in an operation at the Hajin area of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>The Garud commando was martyred in the operation on November 18 last year, in which six terrorists were also neutralised in the joint operation by the Garud and the 13 Rashtriya Rifles. The 31-year-old Garud commando, Corporal Jyoti Prakash Nirala, will be the third recipient of the country\u2019s highest peacetime gallantry award in the IAF\u2019s history after Flight Lieutenant Suhas Biswas (1953) and Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma (1984, then squadron leader).<\/p>\n<p>Sources in the Defense Ministry said, \u201cNirala is likely to be awarded the Ashok Chakra on this Republic Day. The gallantry awards for military personnel will be announced tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another army jawan from the Garhwal regiment is also likely to be awarded the second highest gallantry award, Kirti Chakra, for operations in Jammu and Kashmir in August last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Chanderger operations, in which Nirala was martyred, marks as one of the most successful army action in the previous year as it claimed the lives of six terror suspects, including 26\/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi\u2019s nephew Owaid.<\/p>\n<p>Nirala, who hails from Bihar and has a wife and a four-year-old daughter, was posted with 617 Flight of the Garud Special Forces during the Chanderger operations. Following a tip-off from a local police officer, a team of the 13 Rashtriya Rifles and the Garuds cordoned the house where the militants were hiding.<\/p>\n<p>While the holed in terrorists started firing at the armed forces, Nirala \u2013 with a Negav Light Machine Gun \u2013 retaliated with heavy fire and killed two terrorists, severely injuring another one. Reportedly, the accurate firing by Nirala helped the armed forces to easily gun down other terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>However, a bullet hit Nirala during the exchange of fire between militants and the security forces and he later succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Garud commando who was martyred in the Chanderger operation on last year is also likely to be awarded the second highest gallantry award, Kirti Chakra. The Defense Ministry is likely to award the highest peacetime gallantry award, Ashok Chakra to martyred Indian Air Force\u2019s Garud Special Force operative Corporal Jyoti Prakash Nirala, who played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":36825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[39393,2275,1453,1023,75],"yst_prominent_words":[39486,39386,39382,39380,39384,39376,39387,39381,39375,39389,39390,39378,39374,39391,39379,4244,39385,39383,39388,39377],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Soldier.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36822"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36822"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=36822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->