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Name: |
Dayaram Koul
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Father's Name: |
Sona Koul
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Year of Birth: |
1916
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Place of Birth: |
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Place of Residence at
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Chitragam, Shopian, J&K
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Profession: |
Unknown
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Place of
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Achieved
Martyrdom on: |
June 13, 1990
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Other
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Daya Ram Koul had not fled his native hamlet as he alongwith his family was assured of safety by his neighoours and family friends. It was an influential family which owned a large business establishment in Chitragam. Daya Ram in the evening of his life was reluctant to abandon his birth-place and was keen to breathe his last in his own native village. When Daya Ram was younger in years he had taken an oath at the Shrine of Nand Rishi alongwith his twelve Muslim friends that they would live and die together and partake of joys and sorrows of life in the company of one another He alone remembered the pledge and rest of his twelve Muslim friends had clean forgotten it and it cost his life. The family lived comfortably and without fear and trepidation till 12th June, 1990. On the ugly day of 13th June 1990 a band of Muslim terrorists laced with sophisticated weapons entered his house and asked Daya Ram''s eldest son to accompany them for a word. The mother begged of them for mercy and cleverly pushed them out of the house and bolted the door from inside. Her son managed to flee the scene. Meanwhile she sent for the Muslim neighbour who had assured them of protection. He failed to turn up pretending illness. Sensing trouble she alongwith her family fled her house and cried for help but nobody came to their rescue. Terrorists fled the scene and did not strike that time. Daya Ram as a matter of life-long habit used to go to the stream flowing on the outskirts of the village for ablutions and prayers. In the wee hours of the morning he was returning home after ablutions and prayers when suddenly a taxi stopped near him. He was accompanied by a boy who could sense that the taxi was loaded with terrorists. He was forcibly huddled into the taxi and whisked away. His family lodged a report with the CRPF centre, but that proved a mere routine. After two hours his dead body was found in Frisal village near Dumbi Dul. He was cremated by his family in his ancestral crematorium as per his past wish. What was shocking that the taxi used by the terrorists belonged to one of his twelve friends who had vowed in their youth to live together through thick and thin at Nand Rishi's shrine. The CRPF shifted the whole family to Udhampur and are in exile.
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