PHOTOS: Kudos to these brave children

Each day you hear of tales of bravery and courage. However, these 24 children -- 8 girls and 16 boys --showed great courage and put their own lives in danger to save the lives of others. For this, the country has bestowed upon them the bravery award for their great valour and spirit of selflessness. 

Here are some of their unmatched tales of valour.

1) Mhonbeni Ezung

Mhonbeni Ezung, 8, was given the national bravery award for rescuing her grandmother from a river when she fell into in at Wokha village in Nagaland. She is the youngest recipient of the award this year. After Ezung’s grandmother fell into the river, the little girl managed to pull her out of the five and half feet deep water. Later she fed her grandmother and ran to a nearby village and, returned with locals who took the grandmother to a hospital.

2) Resham Fatima

On February 1 2014, Resham Fatma, a 17-year-old resident of Lucknow, was on the way to tuitions when her uncle Riaz Ahmed, picked her up at knife-point. He took her to a highway and threatened her to marry him. Upon refusing, he poured concentrated sulphuric acid over her head. She suffered serious burns but Resham still took an auto which dropped her to a nearby police station. The uncle was arrested a week later.

3) Zeal Marathe

Zeel Jitendra Marathe, resident of Vadodara, Gujarat, saved some kids in a bus accident. On February 20 last year, she and some other kids were going for a picnic to Shivrajpur along with their school teachers. While returning, the driver lost control of the bus due to which the bus fell towards its right and continued to drag for around 100 kms.  The kids started falling from their seats. Upon seeing, Zeal managed to come out of the bus and save a few other children. She called up police and ambulance and tried to keep the other kids conscious.

4) Gunjan Sharma

Gunjan Sharma 13, was conferred the award for offering herself to hostage taker to save friends. The incident took place in December 2013 when she along with her classmates were abducted in Assam’s Simaluguri area. Sharma, the daughter of a businessman, has told the media that the gunman had stuffed a pistol into her mouth to prevent her from responding when security personnel called out her name during a search operation inside the jungle along the Assam-Nagaland border. Eventually, the gunman freed her.

5) Devesh Kumar

The Sanjay Chopra Award for 2014 will be conferred on 16-year old Devesh Kumar of Uttar Pradesh who was shot in the stomach while he chased two chain-snatchers running away with jewellery stolen from his school principal. “I will always chase bad people and protect the weak,” he said.

6) Rumoh Meto 

Rumoh Meto of Arunachal Pradesh was given the award for saving a 32-year-old who was stuck to a 33 KV high voltage line.

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