The President of India giving away the highest gallantry award Ashok Chakra to Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami of 9 Para (Special Forces) posthumously, the award received by his wife Smt. Bhawana Goswami
Lance
Naik Mohan Nath Goswami, belonged to 9th
Battalion, Parachute Regiment of
the Indian Army. was
posthumously awarded the Highest peacetime Gallantry Award THE `ASHOK CHAKRA`.
The
Ashok Chakra citation for Mohan Goswami reads -
On the intervening night of 02/03
September 2015 Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami was part of an ambush in Haphruda
forest at Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir. At
about 20:15hrs, there was a fierce encounter with four terrorists wherein two
of his comrades were injured and pinned down. Lance Naik Mohan along with his
buddy dashed forward to rescue their injured colleagues, knowing well the risks
to their own lives.
He first assisted in eliminating one
terrorist. Sensing grave danger to three of his wounded colleagues, Lance Naik
Mohan with utter disregard to his own personal safety, charged at the remaining
terrorists drawing intense fire from them. He was hit in the thigh. Unmindful,
he closed in and eliminated one terrorist, injured another and was again shot
in the abdomen.
Undeterred by his injuries, he hurled
himself on the last terrorist and killed him at point blank range before
succumbing to his wounds. Lance Naik Mohan not only killed two terrorists, but
also assisted in neutralizing the other two and save the lives of three of his
wounded colleagues.
Thus, Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami
exhibited most conspicuous gallantry in personally eliminating two terrorists
and assisting in evacuation of his wounded colleagues and made supreme
sacrifice in the highest traditions of the Indian Army.
