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"Major Unnikrishnan was rescuing an injured commando when he was hit," Director-General of NSG J K Dutt said after he announced mission accomplished at the Taj and quoted the slain major as telling his crack team, "Do not come up, I will handle them".
"During the operation, when an commando got injured Unnikrishnan arranged for his evacuation and started chasing the terrorists himself," a senior National Security Guards (NSG) official said.
The terrorists escaped to another floor of the hotel and during the chase Unnikrishnan was seriously injured and succumbed to his injuries, the official said.
It was Unnikrishnan's second deputation with the elite NSG force.
Unnnikrishnan was commissioned in the 7th Bihar Regiment of the Army in 1999 and he first served the NSG during 1996-99 and again came back to it's 51 Special Action Group (SAG) in January 2007.
The 31-year-old officer was the lone son of his parents who hailed from Bangalore.
The other braveheart, Havildar Gajender Singh, was a specialist in heli-borne operations.
"Gajender Singh was chosen for the Nariman House operation as he qualified for the job extremely well. He was leading the slithering act and its follow up action," the NSG official said while paying homage to the slain commandos at the NSG headquarters in the national capital.
"While clearing the fourth floor of the Jewish residential complex, Singh spotted a terrorist fleeing into a room and engaged him by fire. As he closed on the militant, he was hit by grenade splinters unmindful of the injuries, he moved forward and then came under a hail of bullets," another official said.
Singh (36), belonged to the 10 PARA (Special Forces) and was about to complete a year with the ‘Black Cats’.
He hailed from Ganeshpur in Dehradun.
Singh is survived by his wife, a daughter (10) and a son (12).
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Im so sad to see that brave men like you have no protection. You make us proud to be an Indian..I wish your family all the strength in the world to deal with this incident. You will remain in our hearts forever, love, scherry
INDIA NEEDS SUCH BRAVE HEARTS. TIME TO ACT PEOPLE. DO OR DIE...COWARD, VOTE HUNGRY POLITICIANS LEARN FROM THEM.
Perhaps in hour of terror like this that country again stands united... No Biharis..no marathis..no North Indian or south Indian feeling is coming in our way. This is the speciality of this country which holds us together since years. People like Thackereys who boast to be braves were not seen safeguarding the city which they claim to be their own property. Now they should stop these hatred games and do little meaningful in this hour of need.
I pray for the hero's soul.Now my age is 40.Will any of our govt. deffence group allow me to join with them.How can I help my mother nation?join with them?otherwise I cannt
Even in times like these there are a few heroes who give their lives for others...these are the heroes, not the politicians and definitely not the stupid home minister
my salutions to these brave sons of the motherland.they have achieved nirvana through the highest degree of sacrifice.i wish i could be like u brothers.
DEAR INDIAN EXPRESS, WE BEG YOU TO KEEP A WATCH ON THE GOVERNMENT DOING THE PROMISED PETROL PUMPS OR OTHER FINANCIAL REWARDS TO THESE VALIANT BROTHERS WHO LAID THEIR LIVES TO DEFEND US. PLEASE KEEP A WATCH ON THE GOVT. AND PLEASE PRESSURISE THE GOVT. TO DO THE PROMISED TO THE AFFECTED SECURITY PERSONNEL.WE MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE COULD DO NOTHING BUT TO BEG FOR HELP FROM THE FOUTH PILLAR OF DEMOCRACY "THE PRESS"I HAVE NEVER KNEELED DOWN BEFORE ANYBODY FOR ANYTHING.\BUT I BEG FROM THE GOVERNMENT TO HONOR THE PATRIOTS' SIBLINGS WITH THE SUITABLE REWARD WITHOUT ANY RED TAPISM .PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Excellent Job Done. But I think we need to provide more modern weapons and tools to this force to fight anti-terrorism such as night googles, Chemical bombs that knock people unconscious, small robots with remote control to go around the corners, also small robots with guns that can be controlled remotely, very small airplanes that can be remotely controlled for photography, best armor. I would like this team to all all the gadgets that are seen in a spy movie that they are so precise and deadly that terrorist tremble hearing that NSG/CAT are coming.If there are no funding look at very innovative methods such as charging for services to the airlines for Air Marshals, Five Star hotels, Foreign Embassies, Large private businesses such as Tata, Reliance etc providing security as these sites are definitely will be on the terrorist list and they need their services. Commandos should be rotated through various roles so that they get required training without getting ruste
Real Heros. The politicians shud wake up atleast now. Its high time they stop appeasing minorites now.
What a horifying tragedy !!! Dear God, Please, Please , I humbly beseeach you to give back our warrior Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan and in return please take all the 542 occupants of our Parliment if you want
please contact Mr.Raj Thakery and ask him who saved his Mumbai? Offcourse three top police officer of Maharashtra gave their lives but it was the U.P/Bihar/South who were involved in saving this great city and the nation from this terror attack. I hope he learns his lessons and shut up for ever. India is one and every indian has rights to live and earn his livlehood whereever he can find suitable for him. I salute the martyers.
My dear brave brother, I salute you.
Salute to these Great Heroes.They are our real heroes.
It serves no purpose to offer any comments. This 9/11 like most dangerous situation will be forgotten within one month. Indian politicians are gutless. Indian people will suffer most and politicians will become rich as usual.
See thackeraey he was from biharee.But u people only do politics of cast, relegion or communities
We want to hear more from our brave security personal than foolish opportunistic comments from heartless politicians. We are proud of you Major. May your soul rest in peace.
Bal Thakare and his cohorts can continue to drive non-maratis from Mumbai, now that non-maratis like Unni Krishanan have made Mumbai safe by sacrificing their lives.
Mr. Raj Tharey... do you have any more doubts on utter bharatiya's credentials?
No one will remember these heroes who laid their lives to fight these Islamic terrorism once all the dusts are settled. Politicians will continue to sell the country; the show will go on as usual. What happened to those “heroes” who earlier laid their lives during so many anti-terrorists efforts? What happened to those army personnel who died during three wars with Pakistan? Did those incidents taught our political leadership to become more honest, more patriotic? NO. The only people who will remember those fallen heroes are their family members who will then struggle to meet their ends meet.
Our condolences to the families of these heroes. Our hearts are bleeding. They are in our prayers. The MNS and Raj Thackerays should fall on the feet of the family members of such Non-mumbaikars and clean their slippers for life. Anyways, where are they now? At peacetime they want attention so they create a crisis, At a time of real crisis they disapper? Good - they have the prerequisites for becoming a major star in Indian politics. Do these MNS people even vaguely realize they tried to rip out the national fabric of the country, the same fabric that these heroes gave their life to save? Not to mention the "Marathis" in Mumbai these non-marathi heroes tried to save?
We salute you two and your courage.
we all salute our heroes, politician learn frm them
I had so many comments to blame politicians and others. But no good words of my country mens' fearless sacrifice to save the life of others. I am really proud of every human being who did everything to save innocent lives from the hands of terror. My country's people sacrificed their lives to save others. My sincere condolences to all good and innocent souls JAI HIND
Sandeep Unnikrishnan is also a hero like Hemant Karkare,our condolences goes to his family. These officers laid down their lives to save ours.