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Balidan Diwas
3 January 2016
Place of Supreme Sacrifice
Pathankot
State of Origin
Tamil Nadu
Unit / Regiment
Madras Engineers Group
Operation
Pathankot Counter-Terrorism Operation
Biography
Lieutenant Colonel Niranjan Kumar was a bomb disposal expert with the National Security Guard. He was martyred during the Pathankot terror attack in 2016 while defusing a grenade. He was posthumously awarded the Shaurya Chakra.
Sources
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