Service No : 15384492X

Place of birth : Murad Garhi, UP

Service : Army

Last Rank : HAvaldar

Arm/Regt : The Corps of Signals

Operation : CI & IS Ops

Martyrdom : June 4, 2015

Havaldar Jagveer Singh

Hav Jagveer Singh hailed from Gautam Budh Nagar in the Murad Garhi district of Uttar Pradesh. After completing his school education he joined the Indian army in June 1994 and was recruited into the Corps of Signals, an arm of the Indian army that takes care of its military communications. He was awarded two bravery medals in 2012 and 2014. He was reportedly going to be transferred to Assam in a few weeks.

 

He got married to Ms. Manju and the couple had two children Vivek and Renu.

 

Manipur Attack: 04 June 2015

 

During 2015, Hav Jagveer Singh’s unit was deployed in Manipur in the northeastern part of the country. There had been militant activity in the border region of Manipur in the early part of the year 2015. In response to this, 1,463-km of an un-fenced border between Manipur and Myanmar had been sealed and the Army and paramilitary forces had launched a major counter-offensive against the militants. On the 4th of June, the 6 Dogra infantry was heading to the capital of Manipur, Imphal in a 4-vehicle convoy. While they were crossing the Chandel district, on the way, they were ambushed by militants. The tribal guerrillas fired rocket-propelled grenades and detonated improvised explosive devices on the convoy, causing extensive damage. 

 

The attack by militants on the convoy was planned by a joint group comprising of cadres from NSCN(K), Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL) and Kanglapak Communist Party (KCP). The well-trained militants had planned the ambush beforehand and they triggered a landmine when the military convoy reached the area between Paralong village and Charong village in Chandel district. They also attacked the convoy with heavy automatic weapons, firing from vantage points and fired rockets and grenades. Most of the convoy, consisting of about 4 vehicles with 50 soldiers, was severely damaged and many soldiers were burnt to death on account of the blast. The few survivors were shot to death by the militants.

 

The incident was reported to be one of the deadliest attacks by militants in the area. Hav Jagveer Singh was one of the 18 brave soldiers who lost their lives in this horrendous attack. Besides Hav Jagveer Singh the other soldiers included  Nb Sub Ram Singh (from Samba), Hav Prakash Chand (from Mandi, HP), Hav. Sat Pal Bhasin (from Jammu, J&K), Hav Sunil Kumar Sharma (from Sunderbani, J&K), Hav Rajesh Kumar (from Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh), Hav Randeep Singh (from Jammu, J&K), Nk Ashok Kumar (from Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh), L Nk Rajneesh Singh (from Kangra, Himachal Pradesh), Sep Ram Prasad Yadav (from Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh), L Nk Kuldeep Raj (from Jammu, J&K), Sep Manoj Kumar (from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh), Sep Vijay Kumar (from Jammu, J&K), Sep Vikas Bhardwaj (from Mandi, Himachal Pradesh), Sep Sohan Singh (from Sirmour, Himachal Pradesh), Cfn Bharateshwar (from Belgaum, Karnataka), Sep Jeetendra Kumar Kushwaha (from Rewa, Madhya Pradesh), and Sep Manjit Singh (from Pathankot, Punjab).

 

Hav Jagveer Singh was a brave and dedicated soldier who laid down his life in the service of the nation.

He is survived by his wife and two children.

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