Tributes paid to martyr Major Sudhir Walia

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Our Correspondent

Palampur, August 29

Tributes were paid to Major Sudhir Walia, on his 22nd death anniversary today. He had sacrificed his life while fighting with militants in Jammu and Kashmir on this day in 1999.

Civil and Army officers garlanded the statue of the martyr installed in the town. A company of the Gorkha regiments saluted the statue.

Having sacrificed his life at the age of 28, Major Sudhir was posthumously awarded the country’s highest peacetime military decoration in January, 2000.

Sudhir was born on May 24, 1969, in Palampur, to an Army Veteran Subedar Major Rulia Ram Walia and Rajeswari Devi.

He attended the Sainik School at Sujanpur Tira, and then joined the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla.