Who was Jyoti Prakash Nirala, recipient of Ashoka Chakra?
Martyred IAF Garuda Commando Jyoti Prakash Nirala was honoured with the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award, posthumously for his role in a counter-terrorist operation in Jammu and Kashmir. Nirala was part of an army operation in November 2017, in which he gunned down two Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists despite being shot thrice. Five terrorists were killed in that operation.