प्रसिद्धि सदन

On the 18th March 1978, Shri B K Sridhar Rao who was commanding a company at Meluri post in Nagaland, received information that a gang of notorious hostiles was seen moving towards a thick jungle on the borders of our country. Realising that the hardly had any time to make up a detailed plan, he decided to move immediately even though it was dark. Shri Rao along with ten of his available men and some additional personnel drawn from another unit set out for the suspected hostile hideout. He reached the area after a strenuous night march through dense jungle. After a thorough search of the area of the hostiles hideouts, he divided his group into two parties to achieve surprise and also to bar their escape routes. He entered the hostiles camp stealthily with a smaller force without caring for the likely strength of the hostiles. He crawled towards the hut and pounced upon the hostile manning the entrance and snatched his rifle. By then other members of his party also closed in and charged at the hostiles. In this encounter, except the one hostile who was killed when he tried to snatch the rifle from one of his men, all the other twenty one hostiles, who were trying to escape towards the border, were captured alive along with arms, ammunition, documents and other stores.In this, action, Shri B K Sridhar Rao displayed leadership, devotion to duty and courage of a high order.