Harshan R Nair
Indian Army officer (1980–2007)
Captain Harshan Radhakrishnan Nair, AC was an officer in the Indian Army serving in the elite 2nd Battalion of the Para also known as "Predators". He was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, the country's highest peacetime gallantry award in 2008. He was martyred after being shot in the thigh and neck in an encounter with Harkatul Mujahideen terrorists in the Chhoti Margi area of Lolab in Jammu and Kashmir during an operation on 20 March 2007.