New Delhi, July 7

Northern Army Commander Lt Gen YK Joshi on Wednesday took a sortie in a Sukhoi 30MKI fighter jet over the Batra Top in Kargil to pay homage to martyr Captain Vikram Batra, who was killed in action on July 7, 1999.

‘Pt 4875’, also known as Batra Top, is a 16,000 feet high Himalayan massif along the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan. It is now named after Capt Batra, a Paramvir Chakra (PVC) awardee. He had led the charge of his troops of the 13th Battalion of the ‘JAKRIF’ Regiment of the Army to capture the peak and evict the Pakistan soldiers from the mountain.

Lt Gen Joshi, then a Lt Colonel, was commanding the Battalion and was awarded a Vir Chakra. — TNS