Major Mohit Sharma - The Braveheart Soldier

One day a Kashmiri lad named Iftikhar Bhatt approached the Hizbul Mujahideen in Shopian, Kashmir in the year 2003. He had long hair and wore the traditional Kashmiri Pheran. 

They asked him the reason for coming there. He spoke against the army in the Kashmiri language and held them responsible for his brother's death during a stone-pelting incident. 

After that, he was taken to Pakistan for further training. Unlike other recruits, this young lad displayed outstanding initiative and the religious zeal and was promptly marked for further leadership and ideological training.

He was finally given a chance to cross the LOC and carry out an attack on an Indian army Outpost.

In an unprecedented move, he was deputed directly under Abu Sabjar and Abu Torara (war names), Commanders of *Hizbul Mujahideen* with decades of effective insurgency experience under their belt, for further grooming and leadership training.

In 2004 he convinced both the commanders that he can carry out an attack on the army outpost causing maximum damage. He took them to a vantage point and detailed his plan, and impressed both of them!

Abu Sabjar however had a doubt on how this young guy was able to plan a military attack so meticulously and started asking him questions about his background and story. 

Sensing the distrust the young lad gave them his *AK-47* and said they can shoot him if they do not trust him and walked a couple of steps away then he pulled out his Tokarev 9 mm pistol and shot them both Dead!

Two to the chest and one to the head. He was an *Indian army Para SF operator*. 

The two terrorist commanders did not know what or who hit them!

*Iftikaar Bhatt* picked up all the weapons and walked to the nearest army camp.

His real name was Major Mohit Sharma of 1 Para SF,(Madras Regiment) Indian army.

This officer laid down his life in a cordon and search operations in Kashmir in 2009. His last words were to make sure that no one escapes the net!

Major Sharma was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime military decoration. 

In 2019, Delhi Metro Corporation renamed the Rajendra Nagar metro station as "Major Mohit Sharma metro station".

The real heroes do not exist in cinema screens but in uniforms!

*Jai hind* 🇮🇳