Vijay Jagirdar of Indore was fatally beaten on 1 November 1984 trying to stop a mob attacking his neighbour Balbir Singh's family.
Outside Balbir Singh's House, Jamuna Nagar
On the evening of 1 November 1984, in the violence that followed the assassination of Indira Gandhi, a mob of about 150 people armed with knives and sticks attacked the house of Balbir Singh, a Sikh, in Jamuna Nagar, Indore. Balbir Singh was the neighbour of Vijay Jagirdar.
The Jagirdar family took the Sikh family in. Jagirdar then went out to the crowd and asked them to leave the family alone. They ignored him.
When he tried to stop them by force, he was beaten until he lost consciousness. He was taken to hospital and died within half an hour.
The Sources for This Account
The sequence above follows a Wikipedia entry that cites a Hindi history of Ashoka Chakra recipients, by Yogesh Chandra Bhargava, and official reference volumes. Those printed works were not read directly for this article, and the citation itself could not be read.
A Hindi report in Amar Ujala records a dispute over the renaming of a road once dedicated to him in Indore.
The Ministry of Defence awards record lists him as a civilian. It records his Ashoka Chakra as posthumous and gives the date as 1 January 1986.
What the citation recorded
Summary, not the official text: the official awards website lists Vijay Jagirdar as a civilian recipient of the Ashoka Chakra (posthumous) dated 1 January 1986, without citation wording in the archived page. Published accounts record that he died confronting a mob attacking a neighbour's Sikh family in Indore during the violence of November 1984.