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Write the character sketch of Colonel Vasanth Venugopal​

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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.[1] As a result he was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest military decoration for peacetime gallantry.