Sacrifices of Police Personnel Remembered in Udupi on Martyrs’ Day
Udupi: The Police Martyrs’ Day was observed at the Chandu Maidan here on Wednesday, October 21 to commemorate the sacrifices of the police personnel who lost their lives on duty.
G Jagadeesh, the deputy commissioner of Udupi district and the chief guest of the day, paid tribute to the police martyrs.
N Vishnuvardhan, Superintendent of Police Udupi district, said that Martyrs’ Day marks the attack by Chinese forces on the police team patrolling at a high altitude of 4,681 meters above sea level adjoining the Indo-China border on October 21, 1959.
Though armed only with rifles, ten policemen were killed and nine captured by the Chinese troops. Since then, the day marks the sacrifices of the police personnel in the country.
A total of 264 personnel have lost their lives while on duty from July 2019 to August 2020. In Karnataka, 17 cops have lost their lives while on duty, he said.
Additional DC Sadashiv Prabhu, Additional SP Kumarchandra, DySP s Jaishanker, Bharath Reddy and others were present.
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