Sanjay Chauhan (soldier)

Captain Sanjay Chauhan, SC, was an Indian Army officer of the 16 Rajputana Rifles who was killed in action in 1994, leading an operation against foreign terrorists in North Kashmir. He was posthumously decorated with the Shaurya Chakra, India's third-highest decoration for conspicuous gallantry in peacetime. He was born in a Rajput family. Capt Chauhan was killed along with his three teammates on 28 October 1994, in the Lacchimpora village of Jammu and Kashmir. At the time, the Kashmir insurgency was at its peak, as foreign terrorists entered India from the other side of the Line of Control with the objective of destabilizing the state of Jammu and Kashmir.