CRPF Valour Day 2022: 09 April

The CRPF celebrates CRPF Valour Day on 9th April to commemorate the defense of the Sardar post in the Rann of Kutch of Gujrat. On the intervening night of 8th and 9th April 1965, around 3500 men of the 51st Infantry of the Pakistani Army moved towards India at Sardar Post. 2022 marks 57th CRPF Valour Day.

It was on this day in 1965, a small contingent of CRPF created history by defeating an invading Pakistani army, several time larger, at the Sardar Post located in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat. The CRPF men eliminated 34 Pakistani soldiers and captured four alive. In the conflict, CRPF lost six personnel who had attained martyrdom.