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Brave soldiers protecting our borders, giving us true freedom to live: Story of Shaheed Devendra Soni


We are celebrating our freedom and independence, but an essential recognition of our brave soldiers, who are protecting our borders for us to enjoy this freedom is must. Honouring the father of Shaheed Devendra Soni, a program was organised by district administration, IMC (Indore municipal corporation), Indore police and Seva Surbhi at Pritam Lal Dua Sabhagrah on Saturday.
To welcome the family of the fearless warrior, visually impaired children sang patriotic songs. On the eve of Republic Day, relatives of Shaheed Devendra, including father Vijay Kumar, mother Lakshmi and sister Jyoti, were honoured by organisers Om Prakash Nareda, Kamal Kalwani, Deepak Adhikari and Rajendra Chowdarya.
After this ceremony, all the guests and dignitaries moved from the auditorium to reach India Gate built at Regal Square for Republic Day. Candles were lit to honour the martyrs of the country. Further, the guests offered a wreath for Shaheed Devendra and prayed for his peace.
Thousands of residents also gathered at the Regal Square on the eve of the Republic Day for paying respect to the martyrs.
Shaheed Devendra Soni: life of a fearless warrior, shared by family members
Devendra always wanted to join Army since a tender age and was a keen sportsman. He always said that Army is the best way to serve the nation as it is corruption free. He was a motivation for every child in Shahdol.
Devendra was recruited in Jabalpur recruitment rally of Army held in 2010 at the age of 19. Since, then he was posted in Kashmir. Before his posting at Gurez sector, Devendra was posted at Siachin and Kargil.
Devendra came to visit to visit his family twice every year. That year, i.e. 2016, Devendra was supposed to visit the family in December but couldn’t come due to the tense situation at LoC (line of control).
In December, since his leave was cancelled, he was supposed to come on January 15. Devendra had informed his family that due to bad weather it was not possible to leave the post.
On 25 January 2017, i.e., exactly 2 years back on the same, a heavy snowfall hit army posts and trapped army men. Some of Devendra's military colleagues were trapped in the snowfall.
10 soldiers including Devendra went up the hill to rescue them. Devendra and his companions were half-way up when an avalanche hit Kishanganga river that flows alongside of the Chanditap hill.
This is a steep hill standing at 80 degrees. It was not possible to save the trapped soldiers without crossing the place of sledding, so these 10 soldiers started to cross the path by making a distance in groups of four. Suddenly, an icy storm hit the top of the hill and all the soldiers lost their lives.
The four soldiers who were already trapped in the storm could not be saved. Hence, in that fierce avalanche 14 soldiers were martyred including Devendra.
Family of the soldier is settled in Shahdol. He has two brothers and a sister. His father Vijay Soni works in Shahdol court while his two elder brothers Dhirendra and Virendra works at SP office, Shahdol and post office respectively.

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