Lt Col Niranjan Kumar

The following personnel of Indian Army, IAF and the DSC were martyred during the attack on the IAF air base at Pathankot on 02 January 2016.

1. Lt Col Niranjan Kumar       Indian army

2. Subedar Fateh Singh           DSC

3. Hawaldar Kulwant Singh      DSC

4. Havaldar Sanjeevan Rana   DSC

5. Havaldar Jagdish Chand      DSC

6. Lance Naik Mool Raj            DSC

7. Corporal Gurusewak Singh  IAF

The details of the attack could be read here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Pathankot_attack
(though there are many debatable points in the wiki article, it gives a general idea of the attack)

The details of the martyrs are as follows:-

1. Lt Col Niranjan Kumar         Indian army

 

Lt Col Niranjan Kumar was  a 34 year old native of Elambassery village of Palakkad district.  He was brought up in Bengaluru as his father Shri EK Sivarajan was employed in BEML.

 

He first joined the Madras Engineering Group on a Short Service Commission (SSC) and later opted for a permanent commission. At the time of his demise he completed 22 months with the NSG.

He is survived by his father, mother Smt Radha who brought him up (his biological mother Smt rajeshwari passed away when he was just 3 years old), wife Radhika and two year old daughter vismay. 

He was martyred during combing operations on 03 January 2016 as part of operations to clear the base of terrorists.  He passed away in a grenade explosion.

Thousands of people gave paid homage to his mortal remains and it was touching to see many many bus loads of school children who arrived to pay their respects.  That visit must have given them a hero to emulate.

R.I.P dear friend.