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Tribune News Service
Srinagar, May 21
Two policemen -- Selection Grade Constable Nazir Ahmed and Selection Grade Constable Falil Singh -- who were part of the 11-member All India Police Sports Control Board team, scaled the world’s highest peak Mount Everest on Tuesday morning.
Governor Satya Pal Malik, Adviser K Vijay Kumar, Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam, Director General of Police Dilbag Singh and Additional Director General of Police (Armed) SJM Gillani have congratulated the policemen for successfully scaling the Mount Everest in the wee hours of Tuesday.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has greeted them and said he was proud of their achievements and has wished them success in their future endeavours.
The DGP in his message said it was a proud moment for the J&K Police department. He wished for their successful return.
The police headquarters have been giving every opportunity to the men from the department and also from the civil society to excel and achieve goals in the field of sports and make a name for the country, state and for themselves, he said.
Selection Grade Constable Nazir Ahmed, who hails from Kupwara district, is at present posted with 14th Battalion, Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police, and Selection Grade Constable Falil Singh, who is a resident of Rajouri district, is posted with the 1st Battalion, Indian Reserve Police.
Both had received training in basic mountaineering from the Jawaharlal Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports, Pahalgam, in 2004. They are performing their duties with the J&K Police mountaineering rescue teams.
Sub-Inspector Ram Singh of the J&K Police had scaled the world’s highest peak in 2008, an official spokesman said.