Northern Railway constable Jagbir Singh Rana posthumously awarded Police Medal for Gallantry

On eve of 71st Republic Day, constable of the Northern Railway Jagbir Singh Rana was posthumously awarded Police Medal for Gallantry for saving the lives of three children in 2019, officials said on Saturday. Rana, who joined the Railway Protection Force (RPF) in 1988 died while trying to save three children from coming under the wheels of an oncoming train. While Rana managed to save the children, he was run over by another train.

The President's Police Medal for Distinguished Services was awarded to Ambika Nath Mishra, the principal chief security commissioner of the Eastern Railway and Railway Protection Special Force (RPSF) Commandant Bharat Singh Meena. The Police Medal for Meritorious Service have been awarded to 15 personnel, including Jugal Kishore Joshi, DIG/RPF, Anil Kumar Sharma, Assistant Commandant/ RPSF, P P Joy, Assistant Security Commissioner/ Konkan Railway, Deep Chandra Arya, Assistant Security Commissioner/ Northern Railway, T Chandrasekhar Reddy, Inspector/South Central Railway, K Chakravarthi, Inspector/ South Central Railway, Satish Ingle, Head Constable/ South East Central Railway, Deo Kumar Gond, Sub-Inspector/Konkan Railway.

The others in the list of 15 awardees are G S Vijaykumar, Sub-Inspector/Central Railway, D Balasubrahmanyam, Sub Inspector/Training Centre, Moula Ali, Mahfajul Haque, Inspector/4 BN RPSF, Darshan Lal, Sub-Inspector/ 6 BN RPSF, Nemee Chand Saini, Assistant Sub-Inspector/North Western Railway, Alok Kumar Chatterjee, Assistant Sub-Inspector/Eastern Railway and Ashok Kumar Yadav, Inspector/Western Railway.