Subedar Surinder Singh of 3 Sikh led a search for infiltrators near the Line of Control in the Rajouri sector on 3 March 2002.
Search near the Line of Control
On 3 March 2002, Subedar Surinder Singh of 3 Sikh engaged a group of infiltrators a few metres from the Line of Control in the Rajouri sector and killed one. The rest scattered into the forest, and he led the search for them.
He crawled to a boulder from which shots had come and killed another man at close quarters. A third took cover in a nearby house. Singh climbed onto its roof and used grenades against it. A grenade thrown at him caused splinter wounds. Published accounts say he carried on and killed two more. He died while being evacuated, and his team killed two others.
What the record shows
These details come from secondary profiles, and the official wording could not be read for this article. The accounts agree on the date, the battalion and the sector, but Wikipedia and a memorial profile share much of their language, so they should not be treated as independent confirmation. His profile links the action to Operation Parakram. It gives his home as Jadh village in Reasi tehsil, Jammu and Kashmir, and names his wife as Santosh Kaur. His parents were Khazan Singh and Sant Kaur.
What the citation recorded
Summary, not the official text: published accounts of the award say that on 3 March 2002, near the Line of Control in the Rajouri sector, he killed infiltrators during a search through forest, continued after being wounded by a grenade, and died during evacuation. These accounts could not be checked against official wording.