Kanpur: Additional Director General of Police, Kanpur Zone, Anupam Kulshreshtha, paid tributes to police personnel who died in the line of duty during a Police Commemoration Day ceremony in Kanpur on Wednesday.
Police Commemoration Day is observed across the country on Oct 21 every year to honour police personnel who laid down their lives while protecting the nation. The observance commemorates 10 personnel from the CRPF’s 3rd Battalion who were killed when Chinese forces ambushed a police patrol led by DCIO Karam Singh in the Hot Springs area of Ladakh on Oct 21, 1959. Following the incident, the Annual Conference of Inspectors General of Police of states and Union Territories passed a resolution in 1960 designating Oct 21 as Police Commemoration Day.
Police commissioner Raghubir Lal, Kanpur Sector deputy inspector general of police (PAC) Atul Sharma, Kanpur Range deputy inspector general of police Yamuna Prasad, additional police commissioner, Law and Order, Vipin Tada, and additional police commissioner, Headquarters/Crime, Sankalp Sharma attended the ceremony with other officers and personnel.