Shaurya Chakra for Major involved in J&K firing, martyred rifleman
Major Aditya Kumar and rifleman Aurangzeb (posthumously) will be awarded the Shaurya Chakra, the third highest peacetime gallantry award in India. Major Aditya's unit had fired on a stone-pelting mob in Shopian in January, leaving three civilian protesters dead. Martyred rifleman Aurangzeb was killed by terrorists in June in Pulwama while he was on his way home to celebrate Eid.