Excelsior Sports Correspondent
SRINAGAR, May 21: Two Police Personnel of Jammu and Kashmir Police SgCt Nazir Ahmed and SgCt Falil Singh, who were part of the 11-member All India Police Sports Control Board Team scaled World’s highest peak Mount Everest today morning.
Satya Pal Malik, Governor, K. Vijay Kumar, Advisor to Governor; BVR Subrahmanyam, Chief Secretary, Dilbag Singh, Director General of Police (DGP), and SJM Gillani, ADGP (Armed) have congratulated the duo for successfully scaling the Mount Everest in the wee hours today.
Union Home Minister, Rajnath Singh in a message has greeted them and said that he was proud of their achievements and wished them success in their future endeavours.
DGP in his message said that it was a proud moment for the J&K Police Department and wished successful return of the mountaineers.
“Police headquarters have been giving every opportunity to the men from the department and also from the civil society to excel and achieve the goals in any field of the sports to make name for the country, state and for themselves,” Dilbag said.
SgCt Nazir Ahmed who hails from district Kupwara is presently posted at JKAP 14th Battalion and SgCt Falil Singh is a resident of Rajouri and is posted at IRP 1st Battalion.
Both of them have been trained in basic mountaineering from The Jawaharlal Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports, Pahalgam in 2004.
They are performing their duties with the JK Police Mountaineering Rescue Teams.
It is pertinent to mention here that SI Ram Singh of J&K Police has scaled the World’s highest peak in the year 2008.
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