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Saurabh Kalia
Captain Saurabh Kalia (1976–1999) was an officer of the Indian Army who was killed during the Kargil War while being held as a prisoner of war by the Pakistan Army. He along with five other soldiers of his patrolling team were captured alive and kept in captivity where they were brutally tortured, and then killed by Pakistan Army.
Early years.
Captain Saurabh Kalia was born on 29 June 1976 in Amritsar, Punjab, India, to Mrs. Vijaya and Dr. N. K. Kalia. His schooling took place
ammunition. They were finally encircled by a platoon of Pakistani rangers and captured alive before Indian reinforcements could reach them. No trace of the patrol was left, meanwhile Radio Skardu of Pakistan announced that Captain Saurabh Kalia had been captured by Pakistani troops. It was after this that India discovered hundreds of guerrillas had established fortified positions on the peaks of the hills deep inside the Indian side of the Line of control, with sophisticated equipment and supply lines back to Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
Lt Saurabh Kalia and his men