President Pratibha Patil will confer the medal on Major Laishram Jyotin Singh (posthumous) at the start of the Republic Day Parade tomorrow, the defence ministry announced today.
Singh, 37 years old, died on February 26 last year while fighting the suicide bomber. He is survived by his mother Ongbi Ibeyaiha Devi and father Laishram Markando Singh, who live in Nambol Awang Leikai in Bishnupur, Manipur.
The defence ministry said Singh’s actions had saved the lives of three colleagues, two officers, four paramedics and two Afghan civilians.
Singh, who was born in Nambol, went to the Manipur Public School in Imphal and obtained an MBBS degree from the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences there. He completed a two-year sports medicine diploma from the Baba Farid Institute of Health Sciences in Patiala.
He joined the Army Medical Corps in February 2003 and had served at a high-altitude location and in counter-insurgency zones before being selected on merit for deputation to the Indian medical mission in Kabul which he joined on February 13, 2010.
Heavily armed terrorists attacked the mission on February 26 and detonating a vehicle with around 500kg of explosives. The blast demolished the boundary wall, killed the guards and blew open the iron gates, allowing a terrorist to walk towards a guesthouse where he began firing and lobbying grenades.
Singh crawled out from the debris of his room and charged at the terrorist, pinning him down and preventing him from throwing more grenades. This allowed the occupants of the guesthouse to take refuge.
But the terrorist panicked and detonated his suicide vest, killing himself and Singh.
“While struggling till his last breath, Singh saved the lives of his colleagues,” Major General A.C. Anand, department of medicine, armed forces medical services, said.
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