Two young Lieutenants, Kanavdeep Singh and Dheerendra Singh, have posthumously been awarded Kirti Chakra, the nation's second highest peacetime gallantry award for dare-devil feats against militants in Jammu and Kashmir.
The lieutenants and a Border Security Force officer Narindera Nath Dubey, also decoratd with Kirti Chakra are among 243 armed forces personnel figuring in the Presidents Independence Day honours list.
The awardees include 33 Shaurya Chakra, with as many as 21 of them being honoured for making supreme sacrifice of their lives in fighting militancy.
The Shaurya Chakra winners include two Jammu and Kashmir policemen Farooq Ahmed and Abdul Rashid, of the state's Special Operations Group, who died while leading army columns against suspected militant hideouts.
The President's honours list includes three bars to Sena medals, 200 Sena medals and four Vayu Sena medals.
The two Kirti Chakra winners, according to army sources, had led from front a daring attack on Pakistani mercernary outfits in thick jungles of Rajouri district in Jammu province.