1. Naib Subedar Chhering Mutup, AC is a retired Junior Commissioned Officer with the Ladakh Scouts who was awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime military decoration.
10 Facts About Chhering Mutup
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On 21 February 1985, Lance Havildar Chhering Mutup headed a team of soldiers that attacked and captured a crest in the Siachen glacier.
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Chhering Mutup was born in Likir, Leh, Ladakh and joined the Ladakh Scouts in 1965.
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Chhering Mutup volunteered to lead a patrol to capture the crest line overlooking an Indian post on the Saltoro ridge.
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Chhering Mutup accomplished the task in extremely hostile weather in high altitude.
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Chhering Mutup retired as an Honorary Naib Subedar on 1 July 1989.
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Lance Havildar Chhering Mutup was required to accomplish an extremely difficult assignment in one of the forward locations of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Lance Havildar Chhering Mutup thus displayed the most conspicuous gallantry, cool courage and devotion to duty of an exceptionally high order.
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Chhering Mutup's son Tsewang Morup joined the Indian Army, serving with 2 Ladakh Scouts, and was awarded the Vir Chakra for outstanding gallantry in the 1999 Kargil War.
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Chhering Mutup achieved the rank of subedar-major in 2023, and was killed in an accident on 1 April 2023, when his car skidded off a road near Leh.