The Home Minister also met civilians affected by Naxal violence and while expressing his deep condolences assured them of the unwavering support of the central and state governments.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several other top political leaders and ministers of the country on Friday reached the Parliament and paid their tributes to the fallen Jawans on the 23 years of the Parliament Attack.
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami inspected the rally parade at a program organized on Home Guards Foundation Day in Nanurkheda, Dehradun on Saturday. On this occasion, the Chief Minister also presented cheques of scholarship amount to the meritorious children of Home Guard jawa
With polling currently underway at 1,250 polling stations in Nashik for the Maharashtra assembly elections, a total of 3,000 jawans have been deployed from the local police, central paramilitary forces, BDDS and others, as per police officials.
Security forces continued their joint search operation in the jungles of Abujhmad at Kanker in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region for the third consecutive day on Sunday, a day after five Naxals were killed in an encounter in the area.
Earlier in the day, five Naxalites were killed, and a large cache of weapons was recovered during an ongoing exchange of fire between security forces and Naxals in the Abujhmadh jungle on the Kanker-Narayanpur border in Chhattisgarh.
Two Jawans were injured following the exchange of firing between the Naxals in the jungle of Abujhmadh at Kanker Narayanpur Border, Kanker Superintendent of Police (SP) Indira Kalyan Elesela said on Saturday.
Speaking to ANI, Sharma said, "It is very unfortunate that Naib Subedar Rakesh Kumar has been martyred, and three other para jawans have been injured in the same area. In another incident, two Village Defense Committee (VDC) members, Nazeer Ahmed and Kuldeep Kumar, were kidnapped and killed
A top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander was killed during an operation with the security forces in Srinagar. Four jawans were also injured during the encounter which came to end on Saturday evening, IGP Birdi said earier in the day.