Kargil Hero Major Devender Pal Singh Runs the Last Lap with Victory Flame in Drass

New Delhi: Kargil hero Major Devender Pal Singh, who was left with an amputated leg after the conflict, ran the last lap with the Victory Flame in Drass sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday on the occasion of Vijay Diwas.

Major Singh was the target of a Pakistani mortar bomb during the Kargil war. The flame he carried was flagged off by Home Minister Rajnath Singh from Delhi on July 14.

Major Singh, commissioned into the Indian Army in December 1997 after graduating from the Indian Military Academy, was barely 25 years old at the time of the Kargil war when Pakistani troops and militants stealthily captured strategic heights on the border. (IANS)

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