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on 31 March 2001 at the age of 19. He later attempted the selection process and training course of the
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385:"Sanjog Chhetri, Triveni Singh get Ashok Chakra"
264:Chhetri was born on 26 June 1982 at Boomtar in
16:Indian Army Ashoka Chakra recipient (1982-2002)
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411:"Paratrooper Sanjog Chhetri AC - Honourpoint"
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387:. Deccan Herald. Archived from
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198:Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
49:Portrait of Ptr Sanjog Chhetri
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520:Jyoti Prakash Nirala(Yadav)
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280:Chhetri enlisted for the
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889:Shankar Lal Shrivastava
348:Indian Independence Day
254:9 Para (Special Forces)
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812:Nirbhay Singh Sisodiya
657:Pramod Kumar Satapathy
591:Mohit Sharma (soldier)
579:Rajesh Kumar (soldier)
365:Mohit Sharma (soldier)
765:Harsh Uday Singh Gaur
562:Laishram Jyotin Singh
360:Para (Special Forces)
290:Para (Special Forces)
203:Operation Sarp Vinash
134:Years of service
901:Kharka Bahadur Limbu
783:Randhir Prasad Verma
633:Sandeep Unnikrishnan
627:Gajender Singh Bisht
777:Rakesh Singh Malhan
747:Arun Singh Jasrotia
741:Shanti Swaroop Rana
723:Jagdish Kumar Yadav
705:Rambeer Singh Tomar
597:Bahadur Singh Bohra
344:Government of India
328:hand to hand combat
818:Bhawani Datt Joshi
759:Sajjan Singh Yadav
729:Sudhir Kumar Walia
711:Suresh Chand Yadav
663:Dinesh Raghu Raman
639:Mohan Chand Sharma
544:Neeraj Kumar Singh
538:Mukund Varadarajan
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439:. 14 August 2003.
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316:automatic firearms
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282:Indian Army
239:Paratrooper
146:Paratrooper
128:Indian Army
88:Hill Kaka,
26:Paratrooper
959:Categories
895:Purshottam
371:References
260:Early life
100:Allegiance
61:1982-06-26
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450:29 August
445:0971-8257
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137:2001-2003
67:Boomtar,
508:Babu Ram
354:See also
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