Vasanth Venugopal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vasanth Venugopal

Ashoka Chakra recipient

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1967

Place of Birth: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Date of Death: 31-Jul-2007

Nationality: India

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Colonel Vasanth Venugopal, AC (25 March 1967 – 31 July 2007) was an Indian Army officer.
He was the commanding officer of the 9th battalion, Maratha Light Infantry.
On 31 July 2007, he was killed in action while preventing heavily armed infiltrators from crossing the India-Pakistan border at Uri, Jammu and Kashmir.
As a result he was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest military decoration for peacetime gallantry.