Laishram Jyotin Singh

Major

Laishram Jyotin Singh

AC
Major; Laishram Jyotin Singh; AC
	Portrait of Maj (Dr.) Laishram Jyotin Singh
Born	14 May 1972; Manipur, India
Died	26 February 2010 (aged 37); Kabul, Afghanistan
Allegiance	India
Service / branch	Indian Army
Years of service	2003–2010
Rank	Major
Service number	MS-14522F; (short-service commission); MR-08609M; (regular commission)
Unit	Army Medical Corps
Awards	Ashok Chakra

Born14 May 1972
Manipur, India

Died26 February 2010 (aged 37)
Kabul, Afghanistan

Allegiance

India

Service / branch

Indian Army

Major Laishram Jyotin Singh, AC was an Officer in the Army Medical Corps of the Indian Army, who died fighting a suicide bomber during the attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul.^[2] Major Singh was awarded the Ashoka Chakra, the highest peacetime gallantry award in the Indian Armed Forces on 26 January, 2011.^[3]

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v t e Ashoka Chakra award recipients
1951 to 1970	Bachittar Singh† (1952) Narbahadur Thapa (1952) Suhas Biswas (1953) D. K. Jatar†^ (1955) Sundar Singh (1956) Jagannath Raoji Chitnis† (1957) Joginder Singh† (1957) Pollur Mutthuswamy Raman† (1957) Eric James Tucker† (1958) Khadka Bahadur Limbu† (1962) Man Bahadur Rai (1962) Chaman Lal†^ (1965) Lajjaram†^ (1965) Purshottam†^ (1965) Tej Singh†^ (1965) Shankar Lal Shrivastava† (1967) Dhanpat Singh^ (1968) Govind Singh^ (1968) Hukum Singh^ (1968) Lakhan Singh^ (1968) Takhat Singh†^ (1968) Jas Ram Singh (1969)
1971 to 1990	Baij Nath Singh†^ (1971) Bhure Lal^ (1972) Ummed Singh Mahra† (1972) Gurnam Singh (1974) Munnie Lal†^ (1974) Cyrus Addie Pithawalla (1981) Gennadi Strekalov* (1984) Yuri Malyshev* (1984) Bhawani Datt Joshi† (1985) Bhukant Misra† (1985) Chhering Mutup (1985) Jasbir Singh Raina (1985) Nirbhay Singh Sisodiya† (1985) Rakesh Sharma (1985) Ram Prakash Roperia† (1985) Vijay Jagirdar†^ (1986) Neerja Bhanot†^ (1987)
1991 to 2010	Randhir Prasad Verma† (1991) Sandeep Sankhla† (1992) Rakesh Singh Malhan† (1993) Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair† (1994) Harsh Uday Singh Gaur† (1995) Rajiv Kumar Joon† (1995) Sujjan Singh Yadav† (1995) Arun Singh Jasrotia† (1996) Puneet Nath Datt† (1997) Shanti Swaroop Rana† (1997) Sudhir Kumar Walia† (2000) Jagdish Prasad Yadav†^ (2001) Matbar Singh Negi†^ (2001) Kamlesh Kumari† (2001) Rambeer Singh Tomar† (2002) Surinder Singh† (2002) Suresh Chand Yadav† (2002) Sanjog Chhetri† (2004) Triveni Singh† (2004) Chuni Lal† (2007) Radhakrishnan Nair Harshan† (2007) Vasanth Venugopal† (2007) Dinesh Raghu Raman† (2008) Ashok Kamte† (2009) Bahadur Singh Bohra† (2009) Gajender Singh Bisht† (2009) Hemant Karkare† (2009) Jojan Thomas† (2009) Mohan Chand Sharma† (2009) Pramod Kumar Satapathy† (2009) R. P. Diengdoh† (2009) Sandeep Unnikrishnan† (2009) Tukaram Omble† (2009) Vijay Salaskar† (2009) D. Sreeram Kumar (2010) Mohit Sharma† (2010) Rajesh Kumar† (2010)
2011 to present	Laishram Jyotin Singh† (2011) Navdeep Singh† (2012) K. Prasad Babu† (2014) Mukund Varadarajan† (2014) Neeraj Kumar Singh† (2014) Mohan Nath Goswami† (2016) Hangpan Dada† (2017) Jyoti Prakash Nirala† (2018) Nazir Ahmad Wani† (2019) Babu Ram† (2021)
† Posthumous; ^ Civilian; * Non-Indian

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Major Laishram Jyotin Singh AC
Portrait of Maj (Dr.) Laishram Jyotin Singh
Born	(1972-05-14)14 May 1972 Manipur, India
Died	26 February 2010(2010-02-26) (aged 37) Kabul, Afghanistan
Allegiance	India
Service / branch	Indian Army
Years of service	2003–2010
Rank	Major
Service number	MS-14522F (short-service commission)^[1] MR-08609M (regular commission)
Unit	Army Medical Corps
Awards	Ashok Chakra