Laishram Jyotin Singh Explained

Honorific Prefix:Major
Laishram Jyotin Singh
Honorific Suffix:AC
Birth Date:14 May 1972
Birth Place:Manipur, India
Death Place:Kabul, Afghanistan
Allegiance: India
Servicenumber:MS-14522F
(short-service commission)
MR-08609M
(regular commission)
Unit:Army Medical Corps
Serviceyears:2003-2010
Rank: Major
Awards: Ashok Chakra

Major Laishram Jyotin Singh, AC was an Officer in the Army Medical Corps of the Indian Army, who died fighting a suicide bomber during the attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul.[1] Major Singh was awarded the Ashoka Chakra, the highest peacetime gallantry award in the Indian Armed Forces on 26 January, 2011.[2]

Biography

Singh was born in 1972 in Manipur, India, in a Hindu Meitei family. On 15 February 2003, he was commissioned a captain in the Army Medical Corps on a short-service commission.[3] He was promoted major on 15 February 2007,[4] and with effect from 26 April was appointed to a permanent commission with the rank of major dating from 15 February 2005.[5]

Singh was posted with the Indian Embassy in Kabul in 2010. Just thirteen days after his posting, on 26 February 2010, a suicide bomber attacked the guarded residential compound where he was staying.[6] Major Singh confronted the terrorist unarmed and forced him to detonate his vest, which resulted in his death. He was awarded the Ashok Chakra "For his act of exemplary courage, grit, selflessness and valour in the face of a terrorist attack, resulting in his sacrifice and saving 10 of his colleagues"[7]

References

  1. News: IANS. Republic Day: Kabul terror attack hero Major Laishram Jyotin Singh wins Ashok Chakra. 26 January 2011. Economic Times. 26 January 2011.
  2. News: Special Correspondent. Major Jyotin Singh awarded Ashok Chakra posthumously. 26 January 2011. The Hindu. 26 January 2011.
  3. News: Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) . 2452 . 10 December 2005. The Gazette of India.
  4. News: Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) . 1376 . 8 September 2007. The Gazette of India.
  5. News: Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Army Branch) . 858–859 . 12 July 2008. The Gazette of India.
  6. News: IANS. Who is Major Laishram Jyotin Singh?. 26 January 2011. NDTV India. 27 January 2011.
  7. Web site: Ashoka Chakra to (Late) Major Laishram Jyotin Singh Two Kirti Chakras (Posthumous) also Awarded. Press Information Bureau, Government of India. 26 January 2011.