Sopore, February 24: Among those who battled the militants in this town in Jammu and Kashmir was paratrooper Imtiyaz Ahmad Thokar, a Kashmiri, who along with Captain Devinder Singh Jass, fought right at the front and fell a martyr in a shootout with them.
Unconcerned with the burst of grenades and gunfire around him, Captain Jass led his team, including Thokar and Naik P Selva Kumar, without any regard for his own personal safety, an army officer said.
“Captain Jass died a hero as he led his team from the front despite heavy firing and grenade blasts by the group of top militants without thinking about his personal safety in Sopore operation yesterday. We salute him,” he said.
Five militants, including top commanders, are believed killed in yesterday’s gunbattle, in which the captain, Naik Kumar and Thokar, all of One Para Special Forces, died.
–Agencies