Posthumous promotion of Pande

November 26, 2003
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Brigadier General Sagar Bahadur Pande, whom the Maoist killed in a roadside bomb in Makwanpur, has been posthumously promoted to the post of Major General, the Defence Ministry said Wednesday.

Pandey was the highest-ranking army personnel killed by the Maoists in the past eight years of bloody conflict.