Jammu and Kashmir bravery awards for Rajouri militant attack victim and his mother

The Jammu and Kashmir government on Republic Day gave out bravery awards to a mother-son duo – Saroj Bala and Deepak Kumar – from Rajouri district’s Dangri village.

Kumar, who was killed in a militant firing in the village on January 1, was awarded posthumously. Sources said he was returning from the neighbourhood when he heard a gunshot in his house and confronted the armed militants unarmed.

Bala’s other son Prince and his cousin were also killed in the militant attack. They were sitting in the compound of the house when militants opened fire at them.

Bala, who was inside the house, came out and took both the injured inside However, Prince succumbed to injuries in the hospital a week later.