Gallantry Award

Rajnath Singh breaks protocol during gallantry award ceremony, hugs disabled soldier

Rajnath Singh breaks protocol during gallantry award ceremony, hugs disabled soldier

No reward to cops until gallantry proved in encounter: SC

A bench headed by Chief Justice RM Lodha said cases of death in police encounters continue to occur in spite of constitutional provisions for safeguarding the personal liberty and life of a citizen and directed that a magisterial inquiry must invariably be held in all cases of death in police encounter and a report thereof must be sent to judicial magistrate.

The ugly questions that hang over Mumbai cop’s 26/11 honour

The Union Government’s is giving Maharashtra police officer Vishwas Nangre Patil the President’s Police Medal for Gallantry—sparking off a growing controversy.

ITBP gets first gallantry medal in anti-Naxal ops

The force, which was sent to combat Maoists in 2010 to Chhattisgarh, has been decorated with a President's Police medal (posthumous) for gallantry.