Srinagar, Oct 31: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has conferred the “Kendriya Grihmantri Dakshata Padak” on 19 Jammu and Kashmir Police officers for their role in Operation Mahadev, the counter-terror operation launched in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.
As per the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), nineteen officers of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, including Inspector general of Police (IGP) Kashmir Vidhi Kumar Birdi, DIG Central Kashmir Pande Rajiv Omprakash, SSP Srinagar G.V. Sundeep Chakraborty, SPs Tanweer Ahmed Dar and Zoheb Tanveer, have been awarded for their role in Operation Mahadev.
Other recipients include DSPs Vikram Nag, Mubashir Naiz, and Shakir Hassan; Inspector Taseer Hamid; SIs Anchal Singh and Firoz Ahmad Dar; ASIs Basharat Rasool Shah and Mohammad Shafi; HCs Javed Ahmed and Sandeep Khujuria; SGCTs Varun Singh and Mehmood Khan; and constables Suhail Abbas and Basharat Qadir.
The officers were part of Operation Mahadev, a counter-terror mission launched three months after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.
The operation led to the killing of three Pakistani terrorists Suleiman alias Asif, Jibran, and Hamza Afghani.
Suleiman was identified as the key planner of the Pahalgam attack, while Jibran was also involved in the 2024 Sonamarg Tunnel strike.
During the encounter, security forces recovered an M4 carbine, two AK rifles, and a large quantity of ammunition, marking a major success against cross-border terror networks. (KNO)
