80 personnel awarded JKPMG, JKPMMS
JKP bags highest PMGs, second highest PMMS in country
Bivek Mathur
JAMMU, Aug 14: Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, two Deputy Inspector Generals of Police ranked officers, and as many Senior Superintendents of Police (SSPs) were among the 55 police officers from J&K Police who have been awarded Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG) on the occasion of Independence Day.
While one police officer has been awarded the President’s Police Medal (PPM) for Distinguished Service, Police Medal for Meritorious Service (PPMS) has been awarded to 20 Police personnel including eight SSPs from the Union Territory. No police personnel from the 30 States and UTs of the country got the President’s Police Medal for Gallantry.
Further, 80 police personnel from the Union Territory have also been honoured with the Jammu and Kashmir Police Medal for Gallantry (JKPMG) and Jammu and Kashmir Police Medal for Meritorious Service (JKPMMS).
As per Ministry of Home Affairs, ADGP Kashmir, Vijay Kumar has been honoured with Second Bar to PMG, DIG Central Kashmir Range (CKR) Sujit Kumar with Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG), and DIG South Kashmir, Abdul Jabbar with Ist Bar to PMG.
Additionally, AIG (CIV), Police Headquarters, J&K, Dr G V Sundeep Chakravarthy has been awarded the 4th Bar to PMG, Commandant IR-5th Battalion, Ghulam Jeelani Wani has been awarded the 3rd Bar to PMG, SP Arif Amin Shah (3rd Bar to PMG), SP Mohammad Anwar-ul-Haq (Ist Bar to PMG), SP Syed-Al-Tahir-Gilani (PMG), and SP Sajjad Ahmed Shah (4th Bar to PMG).
DySP Jaswant Singh has been awarded PMG, DySP Tanweer Ahmed Dar (3rd Bar to PMG), DySP Mohan Lal (2nd Bar to PMG), DySP Mubashir Rasool (2nd Bar to PMG), DySP Saqib Ghani (Ist Bar to PMG) and DySP Gulam Hassan Sheikh (Ist Bar to PMG).
Other officers and personnel who have been awarded PMG are Selection Grade Constable (SgCT) Manzoor Ahmed Bhat (Ist Bar to PMG), Head Constable (HC) Adbul Khaiq War (PMG), SgCT Vishal Koul (PMG), Constable Mohammad Asgar (PMG), HC Romesh Kumar (PMG), SgCT Jaffar Bashir Qurashi (PMG), SgCT Bilal Rasool Dar (PMG), Inspector Salinder Singh (Ist Bar to PMG), SI Sandeep Kumar Sharma (PMG), ASI Youdhvir Singh (PMG), Head Constable Bilal Ahmed Dar (PMG), Inspector Mir Sajad Bashir (PMG), SgCT Asif Hassan Dar (PMG), PSI Ajay Sudhan (PMG), HC Muzaffar Ahmed Reshi (PMG), HC Manzoor Hussain Peer (Ist Bar to PMG), Inspector Mir Sajjad Bashir (Ist Bar to PMG), SgCT Jahangir Ahmed Dar (PMG), Constable Azad Ahmad Mir (PMG), SgCT Akhil Sharma (PMG), SgCT Sajad Ahmad Dar (PMG), HC Rahul Pandita (PMG), HC Farooq Ahmad Shah (PMG), SgCT Mohammad Amin Lone (PMG), Constable Javid Ahmad (PMG), SI Ishtiyak Latif Qureshi (Ist Bar to PMG), Head Constable Arshid Ahmed (PMG), ASI Faroz Ahmad Dar (Ist Bar to PMG), SgCT Fayaz Ahmad (PMG), Inspector Zahoor Ahmad Wani (2nd Bar to PMG), SI Aashiq Hussain Magray (PMG), HC Ghulam Nabi (Ist Bar to PMG), HC Peer Sajad Ahmad Shah (PMG), Inspector Sheikh Munzoor Ahmad (Ist Bar to PMG), Constable Aadil Ahmad Mir (PMG), Constable Mohammed Ajaz Khan (PMG), SgCT Mohamad Irfan Ahanger (Ist Bar to PMG), SgCT Saddam Hussain Shah (Ist Bar to PMG), Constable Bilal Ahmad Dar (PMG) and Head Constable Basharat Rasool Shah (PMG).
With 55 police medals, J&K Police remained on top of the table among the recipients of Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG) followed by Maharashtra Police with 33 medals, CRPF (27) medals and Chhattisgarh Police (24) medals.
The only President’s Police Medal (PPM) for Distinguished Service awardee from J&K is Mohammad Aftab Mir, SSP.
Police Medals for Meritorious Service (PMMS) were awarded to 20 personnel from Jammu and Kashmir Police. Among the recipients of the prestigious awards are Tahir Sajjad Bhat, AIG (Personnel), Altaf Ahmad Shah, SSP; Girdhari Lal, SSP; Rakesh Kumar, SSP; Ravinder Pal Singh Dutt, SSP; Sanjay Singh Rana, SSP; Shafkat Hussain Batt, SSP and Shivdeep Singh Jamwal, SSP.
The other recipients of the PMMS are Dedar Singh, DySP; Mohammad Ayoub Rather, DySP; Muzamil Ahmad Bhat, Inspector; Nisar Ahmad Shah, Inspector; Piaray Lal Pandit, Inspector; Setinder Vir Singh, Inspector; Ajit Dhar, ASI; Ishrat Jan, SI; Mohammad Ishtiyaq Gojar, SI; Zaffar Ali Khan, SI; Riyaz Ahmad Shah, Inspector, and Vivek Kalsotra, Inspector.
With 20 medals each, both J&K Police and West Bengal Police remained at number 2 in the list of the recipient State/UT Police of the PMMS after the Maharashtra Police with highest 40 medals.
Meanwhile, as per the J&K UT Administration, 74 police personnel have been honoured with Jammu and Kashmir Police Medal for Gallantry (JKPMG) and 6 with Jammu and Kashmir Police Medal for Meritorious Service (JKPMMS).
Among those who have been honoured with JKPMMS medals are three DIGs-Dr Sunil Gupta, Nisha Nathyal, and Javed Iqbal Matoo. The other recipients are SSP Arun Gupta, Additional SP Mohammad Afzal Bhat, and Head Constable Bharat Bhushan.
Those who have been awarded JKPMG are SSP Mohammad Yousif, Additional SP Pardeep Singh, Additional SP Gawahar Ahmad Khan, Additional SP Gaurav Sikarwar, ASI Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat, ASI Kehar Singh, ASI Mohammad Azeem, Constable Mashooq Ahmad Wani, DySP Mohammad Usman, DySP Syed Sajjad Hussain, DySP Farha Nishat, ASI (now SI) Faroz Ahmad Dar, Follower Abdul Subhan, SI Reyaz Ahmad Mir, ASI Parmeet Singh, Constable Mohammad Yaseen Bhat, HC Bagh Hussain Gorsi, Constable Mohamd Saleem Dar, HC Mushtaq Ahmad Hari, HC Zafeer Malik, SgCT Sunil Dutt, DySP Saqib Ghani, ASI Abdul Khaliq War, Follower Virenderpal Singh, HC Sunil Kumar, SgCT Parvaiz Ahmad Sheikh, SgCT Manzoor Ahmad Bhat, Constable Guftar Ahmad Sheikh, DySP Hilal Khaliq Bhat, Inspector Sarjan Ahmad Dar and HC Manzoor Ahmad Reshi.
The other JKPMG awardees are SgCT Abdul Majid Bhat, Follower Khurshid Ahmad Shah, Inspector Abdul Ahad Najar, SgCT Liyaqat Ali Bhat, Constable Sheikh Skandar, SI Jagdish Singh, SgCT Syed Nasir Hussain, SgCT Abdul Rashid Wani, Constable Sheeraz Ahmad Lone, ASI Nazir Ahmad Bijran, HC Mashooq Ahmad, SgCT Mehraj-Ud-Din Shah, PSI Shubham Seth, HC Manzoor Ahmad Reshi, Follower Abdul Qayoom Lone, DySP Javaid Ahmad Lone, ASI Surjeet Singh, HC Ajaz Ahmad, HC Bill Ahmad Kumar, ASI Shah Faisal Khan, HC Arshad Ahmad Khan, SI Sukh Dev, Follower Jagbir Singh, HC Syed Arif Zia, HC Altaf Hussain Dar, Constable Wasim Rasool Mir, Inspector Sameer Ahmad Bhat, HC Bashir Ahmad Khan, HC Harjit Singh, SgCT Zahoor Ahmad Lone, HC Gayas-Ud-Din Mughal, SgCT Abdul Rouf Ahanger, Constable Mohammad Javaid, SgCT Rouf Ahmad Zarger, SgCT Murtaza Mughal, SgCT Asif Rashid Bhat, Constable (now SgCT) Aamir Mumtaz Wani, Constable Gowhar Ahmad Baghat, Constable Farooq Ahmad Dar, DySP Mumtaz Ali, SI Ram Singh, HC Farooq Ahmad Awan and SgCT Javaid Ahmad Sheikh.
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