Overview

• At a Delhi ceremony, Shah honored 12 Army personnel along with two from the CRPF and two from the J&K Police for their roles in Operation Mahadev.
• He said the paired operations restored public confidence and signaled consequences for those targeting Indian civilians.
• Citing the NIA lab’s findings, officials said the militants eliminated on July 28 were the perpetrators of the Pahalgam killings.
• Operation Mahadev, a joint Army–CRPF–J&K Police effort, used technical intelligence including a satellite phone trace to locate three Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives in Dachigam and neutralize them.
• Operation Sindoor, launched in early May, struck terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after the Pahalgam attack that left 26 people dead, mostly tourists.