After CRPF Commandant Pramod Kumar, another son of the soil Shakti Kumar sacrificed his life while fighting against terrorists in Barmulla area of Kashmir on Tuesday night. Kumar, son of Advocate Sant Singh of Professor Colony in Chatra, was posted as Nayak and worked as a wireless operator in the Indian Army.
Kumar was on patrolling along with his battalion when they had an encounter with the terrorists where he received a bullet injury and succumbed to his injuries.
Incidentally, CRPF Commandant Pramod Kumar of Jamtara in Jharkhand also lost his life on Monday while fighting against the terrorists in Nauhatta in Srinagar. Two Jawans including Shakti Kumar and a police man sacrificed their lives in the incident.
Shakti Kumar, who got married in the year 2008, is survived by his wife and two sons, first is seven-year old while the other one is one month old. Kumar had gone to Kashmir last week only, to join duty after spending some time here at home at the occasion of the birth of his second child.
Kumar, who belongs to Itkhori in Chatra, was transferred to Kupwara in Kashmir from Mathura. He was posted as ‘Nayak’ in the technical cell of Indian Army.
Incidentally, after an attack in Nauhatta in Srinagar, the terrorists made an attack In Baramulla leaving two jawans and three policemen martyred in the incident.
Body of martyr Shakti Kumar will be brought to Ranchi on Thursday evening following which it will be taken to his native place Chatra by a special vehicle of Indian Army.