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Mohit was born on January 13, 1978, in Rohtak, Haryana, into a Hindu Brahmin family. His family basically belongs to Village Rasna of district Meerut , Uttar Pradesh. His father's name is Shri Rajendra Prasad Sharma and Mother's name is Smt Sushila Sharma. He was the second born of the Sharma family. [9][10] His nickname in family was "Chintu ...
Mar 21, 2009 · Date of Death. 21 March 2009 (Saturday) Place of Death. Hafruda Forest, Jammu and Kashmir. Age (at the time of death) 31 Years. Death Cause. Killed in action while engaging with terrorists in the Hafruda Forest of the Kupwara sector of Jammu and Kashmir [2] Hindustan Times. Zodiac sign.
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Major Mohit Sharma was born on Friday, 13 January 1978 (age 31 years; at the time of death) in Rohtak, Haryana. His zodiac sign is Capricorn. Mohit Sharma took admission to Manav Sthali School, Delhi in 1983, and then he transferred to Delhi Public School, Ghaziabad in 1988. He completed his schooling in 1995, and then he joined the National Defenc...
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Mohit Sharma’s father’s name is Rajendra Prasad Sharma, and his mother’s name is Sushila Sharma. He has an elder brother, Madhur Sharma.
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Mohit Sharma was married to Major Rishima Sharma at the time of his death.
Mohit Sharma passed out from the Indian Military Academy in 1999 and he was posted as a lieutenant to the 5th Battalion ‘The Madras Regiment’ in Hyderabad. After completing three years of service, Mohit decided to train as a Para (Special Forces) commando, and he completed his training in June 2003. He was promoted to the rank of captain in Decembe...
In 2004, Mohit Sharma was sent to Kashmir for his next posting where he was given the mission to infiltrate the Islamic terrorist organization Hizbul Mujahideen. Mohit managed to get in touch with two members of the group under an alias name, Iftikhar Bhatt. To get himself look familiar with the locals and the terrorist group, Mohit grew his hair a...
On completion of the mission, Mohit Sharma was promoted to the rank of Major in December 2005, and he was awarded the Sena Medal for the covert operation in Shopian, Kashmir. He then got transferred to Belgaum as an instructor to look after the training of more commandos for the Para SF. In 2008, he was sent back to Kashmir where he lost his life i...
On 26 January 2010, Major Mohit Sharma was awarded the highest peacetime gallantry award of the nation, Ashoka Chakra (posthumous), by the Government of India. His wife, Major Rishima Sharma, received the award from the President of India Pratibha Patil. The official statement for the award read-
Mohit Sharma was leading the Bravo Assault Team for an operation in the Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir. On 21 March 2009, he received the information that some terrorists had entered the dense Haphruda forests. He decided to track down the terrorists and kill them but, the terrorists opened fire at the scouts, wounding four commandos immedia...
Mohit Sharma liked playing the guitar.Major Mohit Sharma playing the guitarIn 2019, the Delhi Metro Railway Corporation (DMRC) renamed two stations of the metro’s red line extension. The extension connects Dilshad Garden with New Bus Adda and they were renamed in honour o...Drishyam Films and Applause Entertainment have come together to make a film on the life of the Ashoka Chakra awardee Major Mohit Sharma, and his time in the Islamic terrorist organization. The post...On 24 January 2021, the singing reality TV show Indian Idol dedicated the episode scheduled for that day to the Indian Armed Forces personnel, and the show also remembered Major Mohit Sharma’s sacr...Jul 27, 2024 · At least one soldier died while four others, including a Major rank officer, were injured as the Army foiled an attack by Pakistan's Border Action Team (BAT) along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district. A Pakistani terrorist was also killed in the gunfight.
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After the Kargil War ended, his team was assigned the duty of fighting terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. [1] On 29 August 1999, he led an assault on a militant hideout in the Haphruda jungles of Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir. He killed 9 of the 20 militants present, and sustained several gunshot wounds in the process.
Jul 16, 2024 · J&K: Wreath laying ceremony of four Army personnel who lost their lives in action during an encounter with terrorists in Doda, underway in Jammu. Four Army personnel, including an officer and a cop, were killed during an encounter with heavily armed terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district on Monday. The attack was claimed by 'Kashmir Tigers', a shadow group of Pakistan-backed terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM). The encounter took place when the troops of Rashtriya Rifles and ...
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