Police Special Cell Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma died in hospital on Friday (19 september 2008) after receiving several bullet injuries during an encounter with terrorists in south Delhi earlier in the day.
Breaveheart Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, who had sustained three bullet injuries during today’s encounter with terrorists at Batla House, Jamia Nagar in South Delhi, died in the hospital. Mohan Chand Sharma, who was leading the entire operation, was critically injured and was admitted to Holy Family Hospital in New Delhi.
Minutes before he succumbed to his injuries, BJP leaders LK Advani and Rajnath Singh had visited him in the hospital. Mohan Chand Sharma was one of the most capable police officers in the country. He had received four President’s Medals and three other police medals in his career. He had killed over 40 terrorists in different encounters.
India salutes its brave son, who became a martyr for his motherland. Breaking News Online pays rich tribute to martyr MC Sharma and send condolence message to his bereaved family. Long Live Shahid Mohan Chand Sharma!
Time line:
Following is the sequence of events, according to Delhi Police, of Friday’s shootout in which two suspected terrorists were killed, two managed to escape and one was captured:
Around 10 am:
* A team of 20 people led by Assistant Commissioner of Police Sanjeev Yadav reaches Jamia Nagar. The team takes position on the buildings around apartment block L-18.
Between 11-11.45 am:
* Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, who was not wearing a flak jacket, knocks on the front door of an apartment on the fourth floor of L-18 building.
* Sharma asks the inmates to come out for police verification. Occupants open fire from a .3 mm pistol.
* Three bullets hit Sharma; two pass through his body. Sharma falls down as the policemen take shelter.
* Head Constable Balwan Singh suffers injury on right hand.
* Sharma is taken to the nearby Holy Family Hospital, where doctors immediately wheel him into the operation theatre to remove a bullet lodged in his stomach.
* Senior police officials, including Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh and Deputy commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar arrive at Jamia Nagar.
* Various teams of the Special Cell are pressed into the service along with a platoon of elite National Security Guards commandos.
* Teams wearing protective gear once again try to move into the apartment.
* As both side trade fire, police asked people in the area to remain indoors.
* Police fired a total of 22 rounds; occupants of apartment retaliate with eight rounds.
* Two suspected terrorists are gunned down, even as two others managed to flee from the rear of the apartment, apparently by jumping onto the roof of an adjoining building; one man is captured as police move into the apartment.
* Police teams remove the bodies of the dead and take away the captured man to an undisclosed location.
Around 11.45 am:
* Police declare the firefight over.
* People come out of the their houses and chant anti-police slogans, expressing their anger to reporters for wrongly reporting that terrorists were hiding in a nearby mosque.
4 pm:
* Delhi Police Commissioner YS Dadwal holds press conference to announce that one of the dead was Asif, mastermind of Delhi bombings.
7 pm
* Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, grievously injured in the police raid, is dead.
Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, injured in Delhi encounter, died in a Delhi hospital on Friday.
Forty-one-year-old Sharma, a highly decorated officer who received three bullet injuries in his abdomen, thigh and right arm in the gunbattle at Jamia Nagar in South Delhi, succumbed to his injuries at the Holy Family hospital at 7 pm, doctors attending him said.
A recipient of seven gallantry medals, Sharma, who had led the police team against the militants wanted in connection with Delhi and Ahmedabad blasts, underwent an operation to remove the bullets from his body.
“We have lost our best man,” Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh told PTI.
Inspector Sharma led Friday’s encounter in South Delhi’s Jamia Nagar area where two terrorists were killed and another was arrested.
Earlier, Delhi Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal said that Inpector Sharma was one of the bravest officers in the the force.
Intelligence sources have said that Atif, one of the militants killed today, masterminded Delhi blasts. Atif was the brain behind serial blasts in Ahmedabad, Japiur. (With PTI inputs)
Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, who was injured in the encounter in Jamia Nagar early on Friday, has died in a Delhi hospital.
Forty-two-year-old Sharma, who led the police action against the terrorists in Jamia Nagar, received three bullet injuries in his abdomen, thigh and right arm in the gunbattle. He succumbed to his injuries at the Holy Family hospital at 7 pm, doctors attending him said.
“He was bleeding profusely,” says Reverend Arthur Thampu, medical director of the Holy Family Hospital.
“We have lost our best man,” Joint Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Karnal Singh mourned.
Earlier, Police Commissioner Y S Dadhwal described Mohan Chand as “one of our most brave officers”.
In the 10 years since he joined the special cell, Inspector Sharma won six medals. He was involved in some of the police’s biggest cases.
He had helped nail the men involved in the attack on Parliament and was credited with helping to kill 35 terrorists. Another 85, who were arrested, were also tracked down by him.
Sharma is survived by 2 children, a son and a daughter
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