indian army Mukund Varadarajan.

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Mukund Varadarajan AC (12 April 1983 - 25 April 2014) was an indian army  officer . he was  a  commissioned officer in the indian army's Rajput regiment. he was killed  in action during  a center terrorism  operation while on deputation  to the 44th Rastriya rifles battalion in Jammu and  kashmir .he was posthumously awarded  the  Ashoka chakra , Indians highest peacetime decoration ,for his action .

Mukund Varadarajan

    born in 1983 in a Tamil family in Kozhikode, Mukund completed his  college  in 2004 before joining the  officers training academy of the  indian army . he was commissioned as lieutenant in 2006,and was promoted to captain in October 2008.he served at the infantry school Mhow and was part of a united nationals mission in Lebanon .he was later promoted to the rank of major in 2012 and was deputed to the  44th battalion of the Rastriya rifles.

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born in 1983 in a Tamil family in Kozhikode, Mukund completed his college in 2004 before joining the  officers training academy of the indian army .he was promoted to captain in October 2008.he served  at the  infantry school in Mhow and was part of a united nations mission in Lebanon. He was later was deputed to the rank of major in 2012 and was to the 44th battalion of the Rastriya defiles.

in June 2013 ,Mukund killed Altaf Baba, then commander of Jaish -e-Mohammed in south Kashmir ,when  a group of terrorists attacked Mukund's army convoy .on 25 April 2014, Mukund led his team to Qazipathri in southern Kashmir ,to engage with Altaf Wani, who had  replaced  alfa baba as the local commander of the terrorists had  killed electoral officers during the 2014 indian general election Mukund and sepoy Vikram Singh killed all the  three terrorists in the ensuing  gunfight. however ,both the army men were also killed in the battle.

on 1 June 2015 ,a bust of Mukund was unveiled at the premises of the  officer training academy in Chennai .in 2024 ,a Tamil biographical film Amarna ,which was based on his life ,was released.

early and personal life.

Mukund Varadarajan was born on 12 April 1983 in a Tamil to R Varadarajan and Geetha Varadarajan in Kozhikode, Kerala, india . Mukund and his family moved to Tambaram in Chennai after his  father got job in indian overseas bank . Mukunda received his bachelor of commerce from sir Chandrasekhar Endra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya at Kanchipuram and a diploma in journalism from the madras Christian college .he worked at a BPO center for sometime before he decide to join the indian armed force s. his grandfather Raghav Achari and two of his uncles also served in the  indian army and  this motivated him to join the  armed forces. 

Mukund had two siblings. he married Indhu Rebecca Varghese in 2009,and the couple have a daughter.

career

Mukund joined the officers training academy in Chennai in 2004.after graduating ,he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Rajput regiment on 18 march 2006 . on 18 march 2006, he was granted a regular commission with the rank of lieutenant, and received an ante-dated promotion to captain from 18 October 2008.he served at the infantry school in Momaday Pradesh and was part of a united nations mission in Lebanon. he was promoted to major on 18 October 2012 and was deputed to the 44th battalion of the Rastriya rifles in scorpion district of Jammu and Kashmir.