Tributes paid on Police Commemoration Day
Source: Chronicle News Service / Kaimuanthang Mangte
Churachandpur, October 21 2021:
SP (Churachandpur) Sivanand Surve led the observance of the district's Police Commemoration Day on Thursday.
The event remembered 10 policemen who lost their lives while defending the borders with China in 1959 .
On October 20, 1959, three reconnaissance parties were launched from Hot Springs in North Eastern Ladakh.
This was in preparation-for further movement of an Indian expedition which was on its way to Lanak La.
While members of two parties returned to Hot Springs by the afternoon of that day, the third one comprising two police constables and a porter did not return.
As part of the obser vance, the police held a parade and then paid floral tributes to those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country.
Among others, 1st IRB CO, additional SP (LO) Pherzawl, officers and stall of Churachandpur Police attended the event.
Father of 1st IRB rifleman G Nabakanta Sharma, who died during the Bihar election in 2020, was also present at the commemoration programme.