The widow of the Indian Army officer, Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal, who sacrificed his life fighting terrorists in Pulwama in February 2019, donned olive green as she was commissioned into the Indian Army.

Nitika Kaul passed out from the Officer’s Training Academy in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on Saturday and is now commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Indian Army.

Her husband, Major Vibhuti Dhoundiyal was part of an operation in the Pinglang area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama on the trail of those behind the Pulwama attack that killed 40 CRPF soldiers.

While the forces were successful in neutralising JeM commander Kamran, one of the key plotters of the Pulwama attack on the CRPF convoy, Major Dhoundiyal along with three others were killed in the attack. For his valour, he was decorated with the Shaurya Chakra.

Soon after her husband’s death, Nitika Kaul cleared the Short Service Commission Examination and started her training. The couple had gotten married in 2018 and within a year, Nitika lost her husband. Nitika left her corporate job and joined the army as a tribute to her late husband.