Kirti Chakra for J&K cop killed in Pulwama

The nation’s second-highest peacetime gallantry medal Kirti Chakra has been posthumously awarded to J&K police head constable Abdul Rashid Kalas, while there are nine recipients of the Shaurya Chakra in the Independence Day medals list. Kalas showed exemplary bravery while laying down his life during a fierce encounter in Pulwama district of south Kashmir, in which three terrorists, four security personnel and a civilian were killed in February last year.