President Ram NathKovind awarded India's highest peacetime military decoration Ashok Chakra posthumously to IAF Garud commando Corporal Jyoti Prakash Nirala.
Niralalaid down his life after gunning down two terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.
Corporal Nirala was part of a Garud Special Forces Unit of the Indian Air Force, a detachment of which was attached to a Rashtriya Rifles battalion under the aegis of 'Op Rakshak' in Jammu and Kashmir.
P.Niralafirst Indian Air Force Commando to receive the award after his death.