The widow of Col Santosh Mahadik, who died fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara and was posthumously awarded Shaurya Chakra, will be commissioned as an officer in the Army Ordnance Corps (AOC) on September 9. Swati Mahadik, 38, had joined Chennai’s Officers Training Academy (OTA) in October 2016 around a year after her husband laid down his life in November 2015.
Mother of a 12-year-old daughter and seven-year-old son, Swati availed the age concession for widows of military personnel, who die in the line of duty and cleared an exam to join the OTA.
Read more of this in a report by Man Aman Singh Chhina published in The Indian Express...
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