Seventeen cops of the State which included IG Avinash Chandra, superintendent of police, Vijay Bhushan and others won the President’s Police Medal for Gallantry, while 7 more won President’s police medal for distinguished service. Besides, 73 policemen were honoured with Police Medal for meritorious services.
According to a release of Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued on Wednesday evening, the Presidents Police Medal for Gallantry was conferred to than SSP of Faizabad, Avinash Chandra (now posted on deputation as IG in Shashastra Seema Bal at lucknow Frontier Office), along with than Additional SP, Vishambhar Dayal Shukla, Addl SP, Sarvesh Kumar Rana, and Deputy SP, Rajeev Narain Mishra. They were rewarded for showing courage to foil a fidayeen attack at disputed shrine in Ayodhya when during cross firing with Pakistani militants they gunned down all the five fidyaeen on July 5, 2005. SP Vijay Bhushan, was rewarded with Presidents Medal (2nd bar) for bravery for his contribution in gunning down two hardened criminals Rinku and Yogendra Singh in Ramnagar area of Barabanki during encounter with the sleuths of the Special Task Force (STF) on May 8. 2007. For killing dreaded docoit Shiv Kumar Kol carrying a cash reward of Rs 50,000 in Chitrakut on July 29, 2011, constables –Ram Shankar Singh, Ravindra Singh Yadav and Chandra Pal Singh won Presidents medal for gallantary. Similarly for killing listed gangster Vimal Kumar Upadhya, during encountry in Pratapgarh on April 2, 2011, head constable Atul Kumar Singh and constable Mani Chandra won gallantry reward. On February 15, 2010 in Bulundshahr, Ankit Chauhan, carrying cash reward of Rs 30,000 was eliminated by inspector Vijay Prakash, which brought gallantry medal for the officer. Six cops of the STF –Rajesh Singh Chauhan, Brijesh Kumar Yadav, Uma Shankar Yadav, Girish Chandra Nagar, lakshman Prasad Sharma, and Ishwar Dev Singh, who all turned martyr while fighting with members of Thokiya Gang in Chitrakut on July 22, 2007, were also conferred with Presidents Medal for Gallantry posthumously.
Those who won President’s medal for Distinguished Services included ADG, Surya Kumar Shukla, IG-Gopal lal Meena, IG-Devendra Singh Chauhan, IG- Kamal Saksena, DIG- Sanjay Srivastava, Additional SP- Rajeev Mahendra, and Deputy SP, Yogendra Verma. Prominent amongst the 73 cops who won police medal for meritorious services included IG -Sunil Kumar Gupta, DIG -Mohit Agarwal, SP -Vijay Kumar Garg, SP- Anil Kumar Das, SP-Udai Pratap, Addl SP-Rajeev Malhotra, Dy SP- Bhupendra Pal Singh, Deputy SP-Gunjeet Srivastava, etc.
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