Vinod Kumar Choubey,[1] KC was an Indian Police Service officer who was killed by Maoist Naxalites during the July 2009 Rajnandgaon ambush.[2] He is the first Indian Police Service officer in the state of Chhattisgarh to have died due to Naxal violence.[3] Choubey was posthumously awarded the peacetime gallantry award "Kirti Chakra" by then President of India Pratibha Devi Singh Patil.[4][5]
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