Altogether 89 police personnel from the state including 15 for Gallantry have been honored with Presidents Medal on the eve of Independence Day on Friday.
Besides 15 who got prestigious President’s police medal for Gallantry, 4 received President’s Police medal for Distinguished Services and 70 for Meritorious Services.
Binod Kumar Singh, a retired IPS officer, along with sub-inspector Panna Lal (Posthumously), Avinash Chandra, Abhay Kumar Prasad, Devendra Choudhury and Dilip Singh, had to wait for more than 14-years to achieve the top bravery medal. Vinod Kumar, than IG of Varanasi Zone, along with the above cops then posted in Mirajapur and Sonebhadra, managed to kill 15 naxalites during an encounter held in Madiyahan locality of Mirjapur on March 9, 2001.
In another incident, than SSP STF, SK Bhagat, Additional SP Vijay Bhushan, constable Satyendra Singh, got Gallantry Medal for gunning down two hardened criminals in Triveninagar at Lucknow. On May 20, 2006, two separate teams of Lucknow Police and STF led by Ashutosh Pandey and SK Bhagat respectively, intercepted some criminals at Mahibullapur and later during cross-firing they gunned down two hardened criminals one carrying a cash reward of Rs 50,000. The criminals were involved in killing of woman in Hazratganj area after she resisted their molestation attempt. Sub-inspector Girja Shankar Tripathi, and constable Vijay Pratap Singh, both than posted in Varanasi on February 11, 2009, got Gallantry for killing a rewarded criminal Satyendra Tewari.
Sub-inspector Avinash Kumar Gautam, and head-constable, Akshay Kumar Sharma, both than posted in Gautambudhnagar, on October 22, 2011, got Gallantry Medal for their courage shown during arrested of two criminals who had abducted a child. Lastly, then SSP of STF Naveen Arora and sub-inspector Shailesh Pratap Singh, got the Presidents Medal for bravery as on April 26, 2010, both the cops managed to gun down Ashutosh Rai and Ajay Singh, both carrying a cash reward of Rs 50,000 on their arrest.
The President’s police medal for distinguished service have been given to ADG( Human Rights) Biswajit Mahapatra, ADG(CB-CID) Sanjay Moreshwar Tarde, DAP Mirzapur Srvajeet Shahi and Head Constable( Kanpur Dehat) Raj Narain. Among the 70 police personnel selected for the police medal for meritorious services the prominent are DIG( Meerut range) Ramit Sharma along with 10 ASPs, 11 DSPs and 2 inspectors.
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh police has also announced honor 250 policemen for their contribution on Independence Day. An official statement here said that 50 police officer workers will be getting the “Utkirsht Sewa Samman Chinha” and 200 policemen will be getting the “Sarahniya Sewa Samman Chinha” for their outstanding contribution to the police services including 2 personnel of the Anti Terrorist Squad(ATS) and 5 of the Special Task Force(STF).
The nominated policemen would also be getting a cash prize worth Rs 10,000 and Rs 5,000 each along with the citation. The following awards will be presented by Director General of Police Jagmohan Yadav.
source: http://www.dailypioneer.com / The Pioneer / Home> State edition> Lucknow / Pioneer News Service, Lucknow / Saturday – August 15th, 2015