 Puneet Nath Datta was commissioned in 1/11 Gorkha Rifles on 9 December 1995.He achieved the supreme aim of his life of serving his motherland, when he took part in an encounter that panned out as a cordon & search operation on specific information from a source cultivated by him regarding presence of foreign militants in a building in the Naushera locality of Srinagar.The operation was started on 20 July 1997.The building was completely surrounded by 0400 hours.