Mitali Madhumita

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Mitali Madhumita is the first woman officer in the Indian Army to receive a gallantry award. Colonel Mitali Madhumita received the Sena Medal in 2011 for exemplary courage shown during the attack on the Indian embassy by terrorists in Kabul, Afghanistan on 26 February 2010, when she was a Major and operations in Jammu-Kashmir and the northeast states of India. Colonel Madhumita went into the Indian embassy which had come under attack and rescued several injured civilians and army personnel from the debris. About nineteen people died in the 2010 Kabul embassy attack including seven Indians. She was said to be the first Indian woman officer to be awarded the Sena medal but there was a former example of CR Leema.

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