2000 Red Fort attack

On 22 December 2000 starting at approximately 9:00 pm, two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants began firing indiscriminately and gunned down two army jawans belonging to the 7th Rajputana Rifles and a civilian security guard.

The troops were placed at the fort due to its extreme importance within Indian history.

All the intruders escaped the Red Fort by scaling over the boundary wall on the rear side of the complex.

A total of three persons- Abdullah Thakur, a civilian sentry, Rifleman Uma Shankar Singh, and Naik Ashok Kumar- died as a result of the attack.

Naik Ashok Kumar succumbed to his injuries in a Delhi hospital hours after the event occurred.