Delhi Police Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma, who was killed during the 2008 Batla House encounter, has been awarded a gallantry medal posthumously for the seventh time
Lt Col Jyoti Lama, Maj Konjengbham Bijendra Singh, Naib Subedhar Narender Singh and Naik Naresh Kumar were among the recipients of the award
Singh, a Deputy Commandant in the CRPF has won five gallantry awards since 2004 when he joined the CRPF
The enhanced allowance which is for the recipients of post-independence and pre-independence gallantry awards will be paid with retrospective effect from August 1