Twenty officers of the Jammu and Kashmir Police have received the “Kendriya Grihmantri Dakshata Padak” from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for their role in Operation Mahadev.The officers were part of the counter-terror operation in which three Pakistani militants were killed, three months after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack. One of the slain militants, Suleiman alias Asif, was identified as the key planner of the Pahalgam attack along with Jibran and Hamza Afghani. Jibran was also involved in the Sonamarg Tunnel attack in October 2024.

During the operation, security forces recovered one M4 carbine rifle, two AK rifles, and other ammunition.

The award recipients are IG Kashmir Vidhi Kumar Birdi, DIG Central Kashmir Pande Rajiv Omprakash, SSP Srinagar G.V. Sundeep Chakraborty, SP Cargo Tanweer Ahmed Dar, SP Zoheb Tanveer, DSP Vikram Nag, DSP Mubashir Naiz, DSP Shakir Hassan, Inspector Taseer Hamid, SI Anchal Singh, SI Firoz Ahmad Dar, ASI Basharat Rasool Shah, ASI Mohammad Shafi, HC Javed Ahmed, HC Sandeep Khujuria, SGCT Varun Singh, SGCT Mehmood Khan, CT Suhail Abbas, and CT Basharat Qadir.