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About Jojan Thomas
- Colonel Jojan Thomas was an Indian military officer with the Jat Regiment and later the 45 Rashtriya Rifles unit.
- He was a native of Kuttoor in Kerala and lived in Bangalore.
- He was commissioned from the Officers Training Academy, Chennai in March 1986.
- On 22 August 2008, he led an operation against terrorists in the forests of Macchal sector in the Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.
- In the process, he killed three terrorists, but sustained several gunshot wounds and succumbed to injuries.
- For his bravery, he was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, the highest peace time military decoration in India.
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