Army Pays Floral Tribute to Martyr Colonel Santosh Mahadik

Army on Wednesday paid floral tributes to Colonel Santosh Mahadik who was killed while battling militants.

Colonel Santosh Mahadik was killed while battling militants near Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. (Photo: PTI)

The Indian Army on Wednesday paid floral tributes to Colonel Santosh Mahadik, Commanding Officer of the 41 Rashtriya Rifles, who was killed while battling militants near Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district.

Tributes to the valour and sacrifice of the late officer were paid in a solemn ceremony held at Badami Bagh Cantonment on Wednesday. Top army officers including, Northern Commander Lt General D S Hooda, and officers from BSF and Jammu and Kashmir Police laid floral wreaths on the coffin.

The 39-year-old colonel, a resident of Maharashtra, who was the Commanding Officer of 41 Rashtriya Rifles, was critically injured during an operation in the Haji Naka forest area of Kupwara near the LoC in Kashmir on 17 November.

He succumbed to his injuries at a hospital later. Colonel Mahadik, an officer from the 21 Para-Special Forces unit, was awarded a Sena Medal for gallantry during Operation Rhino in the North-East in 2003.

(With PTI inputs)