SAMBA: To pay homage to the braveheart martyr PSI Deepak Sharma who made the supreme sacrifice battling a Gangster during an encounter in Kathua, wreath laying ceremony was held at District Police Lines, at Samba.

DGP J&K R. R. Swain led officers, Jawans and relatives of the martyr in offering heartfelt tributes to the slain Cop.

ADGPs Vijay Kumar, Anand Jain, DIG J&K Range Dr. Sunil Gupta ,& other jurisdictional officers laid floral wreaths.

Earlier, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on said that "every drop of the blood of our martyr will be avenged" after the Probationary Sub-Inspector, Deepak Sharma, who suffered severe head injuries during an encounter with a gangster in Kathua region, died during treatment.