Srinagar, Nov 3 Rich tributes were paid on Saturday to late Major P Purushottam and five other brave soldiers who attained martyrdom on this day in 1999 in a fidayeen attack on Public Relation Office (PRO) inside the headquarters of 15 Corps at Badami Bagh Cantonment.
In a solemn and poignant ceremony held today at Badami Bagh (BB) Cantonment, Srinagar, all ranks of the PRO, paid rich tributes to Major Purushottam and other five martyrs.
Late Major Purushottam, who was posted as PRO (Defence), along with five of his comrades, bravely fought militants who had launched a ‘fidayeen’ attack on his office in the evening of November 3, 1999.
Having been engaged in a hand to hand fight with the fidayeen, he and his colleagues made the supreme sacrifice of their lives while trying to save media persons.
A group of media persons were sitting in PRO’s office when fidayeen attacked. UNI
