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On the night of 30 June 1999/01 July 1999, in the operations to capture Point 4812 in the Batalik Sector, Lieutenant Keishing Clifford Nongrum was tasked to assault the feature from the South-Eastern direction. Lieutenant Keishing Clifford Nongrum lcd his column over the near impossible vertical clitt feature. On reaching the top, his column encountered strong enemy opposition. The enemy was well entrenched in interconnected positions carved out of boulders and remained immune to even artillery fire.

The enemy pinned down the colur.in of Lieutenant Keishing Clifford Nongrum with heavy and accurate automatic fire for about two hours. On secing the futility of own fire against the fortified enemy positions, Lieutenant Keishing Nongrum, with utter disregard to his personal safety, charged through the fire zone. Closing in with the first position, he threw grenades into it and killed six enemy soldiers. He then tried to snatch the universal machine gun of the enemy from the second enemy position and received a volley of bullets.

The audacious action of Lieutenant Keishing Clifford Nongrum stunned the enemy giving valuable reaction time to his troops to close in and finally clear the position. Though severely wounded, Lieutenant Keishing Clifford Nongrum refused to be evacuated and fought valiantly till he succumbed to lis injuries. This act resulted in the ultimate capture of Point 4812

Lieutenant Keishing Clifford Nongrum displayed conspicuous bravery, dogged determination and raw courage in the face of the enemy and made the supreme sacrifice in the highest traditions of the Indian Army.