Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Nov 22: Army Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal, who was killed in the 2019 Pulwama terrorist attack, was accorded the Shaurya Chakra posthumously by pesident Ram Nath Kovind in an investiture ceremony on Monday.
Dhoundiyal’s wife Lieutenant Ninikta Kaul and mother Saroj Dhoundiyal received his Shaurya Chakra. He has been accorded the for his role in an operation where five terrorists were eliminated and 200 kg explosive material was recoverd.
He lost his life in the February 2019 encounter with Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists in Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir.
#WATCH | Delhi: Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal’s wife Lieutenant Nitika Kaul and mother Saroj Dhoundiyal receive his Shaurya Chakra (Posthumous) for an operation in Jammu and Kashmir in which five terrorists were killed and 200 kg explosives were recovered. pic.twitter.com/0TmNwgBQ3b
— ANI (@ANI) November 22, 2021
