For Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officer Naresh Kumar winning gallantry medals has become a habit. The 35-year-old Assistant Commandant was on Friday picked for ‘6th bar to Police Medal for Gallantry’, his seventh award in the last four years.

“I am elated with the news of the latest medal. I wish to keep serving my country and this is what I donned my uniform for,” Kumar, who is now posted in Delhi, told PTI.

Kumar, who belongs from Hoshiarpur in Punjab, is eager to go back to Kashmir again. “I joined Kashmir as soon as I passed out from the academy. I wish to go back to Kashmir on posting again,” he said.

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The officer, who is an engineering graduate, was first awarded the gallantry medal in 2017 when he headed a team that killed three terrorists who attacked a security force camp near the Srinagar airport in 2017.

Naresh Kumar headed CRPF’s elite quick action team (QAT) in Kashmir before he moved to New Delhi.

Kumar’s wife Sheetal Rawat also serves in the CRPF as an Assistant Commandant.