Puneet Nath Datt
Ashoka Chakra recipient (1973–1997)
Second Lieutenant Puneet Nath Datt, AC (29 April 1973 – 20 July 1997) was an officer of the Indian Army's 11 Gorkha Rifles. He was posthumously awarded India's highest peacetime gallantry award, the Ashok Chakra, for bravery displayed in an Indian Army operation. The operation was conducted against terrorists hidden in a three-story building in the Nowshera area of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.
Early life
Puneet Nath Datt was born on 29 April 1973, in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. He completed his schooling at St. Bethany's School in Darjeeling, St. Joseph's Academy in Dehradun, St. Xavier's School in Jaipur, and attained his class XII from Tagore Public School in Jaipur.
As a child and while in high school, his ambition was to join the Indian Army, and he pursued it by preparing for entry into the renowned National Defence Academy. He secured entry into the NDA in December 1991.
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