Matbar Singh Negi of Parliament House security closed Gate No. 11 after being shot during the attack of 13 December 2001.
Closing Gate No. 11
When five armed men jumped from an Ambassador car in the Parliament House complex on 13 December 2001 and opened fire, Matbar Singh Negi, a Security Assistant of the Watch and Ward Staff, was hit. According to the Home Minister's statement to the Lok Sabha five days later, he went inside Gate No. 11 and closed it. An alarm was raised, and all the gates of the building were shut.
The attackers moved to Gate No. 12, then Gate No. 1, where one was shot and the explosives on his body detonated. Three more were killed at Gate No. 9 and the last at Gate No. 5.
A filling point at Rohini
He was among 18 people taken to Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital that day, and he later died of his wounds. Press Information Bureau releases name him as a Security Assistant of the Rajya Sabha Secretariat, alongside his colleague Jagdish Prasad Yadav. He received the Ashoka Chakra posthumously. On 15 May 2007, Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat handed over the Shaheed Matbar Singh Negi Filling Point at Rohini, New Delhi, to his widow, Kalpa Devi.
What the citation recorded
Summary, not the official text: the official wording of this award was not available to read. The Home Minister's statement to the Lok Sabha records that during the attack on Parliament House on 13 December 2001, Shri Matbar Singh sustained bullet injuries, went inside Gate No. 11 and closed it. He died later of his injuries.