Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday paid tribute to Army Captain Shubham Gupta, a resident of Agra district, who was martyred during an encounter with terrorists in Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir.
Expressing his condolences to the bereaved family through his official X handle, CM Yogi wrote, “Uttar Pradesh government is with the bereaved family members of the martyred captain at this hour of grief.”
It may be noted that four army personnel, including Captain Shubham Gupta who joined the Indian Army in the year 2015 and was commissioned in the year 2018, were martyred in an encounter between the security forces and terrorists that took place at Rajouri in Jammu on Wednesday. Shubham’s first posting was in Udhampur.