Mohit Sharma (soldier)
Major Mohit Sharma (13 January 1978 – 21 March 2009) was an Indian Army Officer who was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peace-time military decoration. Sharma was from the elite 1st Para SF. On 21 March 2009, during an operation in the Hafruda forest of the Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, Major Sharma was part of a search operation launched by the Army along with Rashtriya Rifles units when militants hiding in natural caves open fire on approaching troops, In exchange of fire Major sharma and three other soldiers were martyred, While three militants were also killed.