The 29-year-old Captain Pranjal from 63 Rashtriya Rifles was killed during an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district on Wednesday.
They were awarded on the spot by Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi where Domino sniffed the blood trail of the terrorists to find their hideouts. This helped the security forces locate and neutralize the threat.
Majid was among the five Army personnel who lost their lives during the encounter operation of the terrorists in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Mortal remains of Indian Army's Capt Shubham Gupta, who lost his life in an operation in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri to flush Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, were brought to his residence here in Uttar Pradesh.
The Indian Army in a joint operation with Paramilitary forces and Jammu and Kashmir police foiled a terrorist attempt in Rajouri, eliminating two terrorists including a top LeT commander and sniper, identified as Quari.
In a wreath-laying ceremony, senior Indian Army officers paid homage to five Army personnel who lost their lives during the encounter operation to flush out terrorists in the thickly forested terrain in Kalakote in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The encounter broke out between terrorists and a joint team of the Army and the Jammu and Kashmir Police in the Bajimaal area of Dharamsala in Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri district.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday paid his last tributes to Para Commando Sachin Laur, a resident of Aligarh, who lost his life in the fierce exchange of fire with terrorists in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Indian army on Friday located the terror hideouts used by terrorists to carry out their operations in the recent Rajouri encounter in which five army personnel laid down their lives.
Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi, the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the Northern Command, on Friday said some of the terrorists who have crossed over into India from across the border are retired Pakistani soldiers.
The complicity of the Pakistanis stands absolutely established because they flew two drones to resupply arms and ammunition. Under the circumstances, this statement is absolutely and totally condemnable and she should not have indulged in this petty politics at all," Defence Expert PK Sehgal
A wreath-laying ceremony for four Army personnel who lost their lives during the encounter operation of the terrorists in the thickly forested terrain in Kalakote at Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir was held in Jammu on Friday.