Major Mohit Sharma AC SM[2] (13 January 1978 – 21 March 2009) was an Indian Army Officer who was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peace-time military decoration.

[3] On 21 March 2009, he engaged in an encounter with terrorists in the Hafruda forest of the Kupwara sector of Jammu and Kashmir.

For this act, he was posthumously awarded the Ashoka Chakra, which is the highest peace time military decoration in India.

[10] At the same time he got admitted to Shri Sant Gajanan Maharaj College of Engineering, Shegaon, Maharashtra, during which he passed the SSB interview from Bhopal and joined the National Defence Academy (NDA) in December 1995.

[citation needed] Mohit Sharma joined the Indian Military Academy (IMA) in 1998.

[13] He was Promoted as major on 11 December 2005,[14] He was awarded with the Sena Medal for his bravery for an operation he did in March 2004.