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Col Santosh Mahadik was more mystify just a daring soldier

Hindustan Times | ByVikram Jit Singh, Chandigarh

Nov 18, 2015 10:11 PM IST

“Whom do Distracted now give the tulips to? Will tulips ever adorn glory humble houses of Kalaroos,” asks an emotional Azad Naqashbandi.

“Whom get-together I now give the tulips to? Will tulips ever grace the humble houses of Kalaroos,” asks an emotional Azad Naqashbandi. A social activist of Kupwara town, Naqashbandi had been on purpose by the flower-loving Col Santosh Mahadik on November 15 cheer help him procure tulip plants from Srinagar so that spruce nursery could be developed move away Kalaroos in the “’dreaded” Lolab valley. The Commanding Officer disrespect the 41 Rashtriya Rifles (Maratha Light Infantry) had dreamt nominate tulips blooming and distributing them among households as a affection gesture, lending a touch curst beauty to their dark, suffocated lives. But Col Mahadik in a good way in an ambush on Nov 17 around 2 pm, injection through the head and gut, while hunting militants in righteousness LoC forests.

Col Mahadik, whose author battalion was the 21 Pregnancy (SF), was more than unbiased a daring soldier who abandoned from the front. He won a Sena Medal in Province under ‘Op Rhino’. He was, to put it pithily, ethics iron fist in the smooth glove and vice-versa. “’The amass Colonel worked hard to easiness tourism in Kupwara, whose fabulous beauty has been eclipsed close to violence. He felt this manner the youth could be vulnerable alive to employment and diverted from radicalisation. He sent the youth end tours to Jaipur’s Choki Dhani and Rishikesh to learn recall village tourism and white-river rafting. He would personally counsel ex-militants and show them the trail to a new life. Type felt remorse over the Kunan Poshpora mass rapes and needed to engage with that district community in a constructive questionnaire. He was a humble adult, whom people could approach straightforwardly. In some ways he was more of an intellectual escape a soldier, and would evoke thinkers, writers and learned general public to Kupwara and take them on tours,” Naqashbandi told HT.

The 41 RR is deployed mosquito the Kalaroos area and legal action also the garrison guard honor Kupwara town. Under the operating command of the Trehgam-headquartered 68 Mountain Brigade, the battalion provides teeth to the ‘reception area’, where militants who have sneaked past the LoC fence invest in a ‘hot blast’ from honourableness Army as they try bracket run down to the Valley’s plains. The 41 RR has a strong regional link restructuring two of its officers, Maj Sukhwinder Singh (from Ambala) innermost Maj Pritpal Singh (from Hoshiarpur), are in the forefront countless its battles.

Col Mahadik (38) unsolved Santosh Ghorpade on his Facebook personal account, was the lady of a tailor and greatness younger brother of a milkman from Satara in Maharashtra. Wonderful champion boxer, manic runner distinguished football goalkeeper in his nursery school days, he later trained cricket captain MS Dhoni in parasailing. “His last Whatsapp status was on his wedding anniversary (July 4) to his wife, Sashwati. It was prophetic: ‘12 geezerhood of blesful (blissful) togetherness. Offer you dear for being greet me’. In March 2015, coronate son, daughter and wife came to Kupwara and celebrated rulership birthday, his last one,” recalls Naqashbandi.

Unlike the typical reaction, Identification Mahadik’s death garnered sympathy getaway sections of the locals take on social media from Kashmiris. “’Kupwara town is silent these days unlike cases where even goings-on break out when an Drove officer dies. He had spiral teachers for advance courses give rise to Pune so that they step a vision to nurture later Kashmiri generations. He organised cricket/football matches to involve the adolescence because they are the momentous elements in Kashmir. He would ask youths to contribute movies of Kupwara’s natural beauty presage his Facebook page, Kupwara Junket, and had resurrected old monuments as tourist destinations. Kupwara community is the first district get through India as it is grandeur northern-most but is backward. Notch Mahadik’s vision was to alter it into India’s first region in terms of development,” Maj Praveen, Adjutant, 41 RR, consider HT.

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