Major Mukund Varadharajan was with 44th battalion of Rashtriya Rifles, He was killed in an encounter with Hizbul Mujahideen militants in Shopian in South Kashmir yesterday. His father R. Varadharajan, a retired official of Indian Overseas Bank. Major Varadharajan completed B. Com at Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Viswa Mahavidyalaya at Selaiyur and went on to do a diploma in journalism at Madras Christian College, Tambaram. He joined OTA, St. Thomas Mount, and passed out in 2004 to become a lieutenant. He served at the Infantry School in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, and was in Lebanon on a United Nations Mission. Mukund Varadharajan was married to Indu and has a three-year-old daughter Arshea.
