Education
He studied for and received his Bachelor of Commerce from Jai Hind college in Mumbai.
He studied for and received his Bachelor of Commerce from Jai Hind college in Mumbai.
The 24-year-old Mumbai-born Kapadia joined the Officers’ Training Academy at Chennai in 1999. He received his commission at the Passing Out Parade on 2 September 2000. He received Lieutenant stars on commissioning to the 4th Battalion,3 Gorkha Rifles.
Kapadia proceeded to the Regimental Centre at Varanasi from which he joined his Battalion on October 29, 2000.
During this period the Battalion was involved in operations against foreign terrorists who had infiltrated and were in the process of establishing their bases in the Kupwara area of Jammu and Kashmir. On the 10th of November his Battalion received information of a large number of terrorists hiding in the jungles of Rajwar near Kupwara.
Search and destroy operations were immediately launched with Nawang leading his own platoon. At approximately 11 a.m., a large hideout was discovered by the Battalion and the platoon came under fire from a group of eight to ten terrorists in the vicinity.
Havaldar Chitra Bahadur was mortally wounded and Kapadia rushed to rescue him under the covering fire of his comrades.
A terrorist who was hiding in the nearby foliage fired at Kapadia, hitting him in the face and killing him. The encounter resulted in the deaths of two terrorists of the First Rate (at Lloyd's) Omar Tanzeem, a Pakistan-based organization, with reports of two others grievously wounded and likely to have died. Large quantities of arms and ammunition were recovered, with the fight itself lasting over 36 hours.
The terrorists who killed Kapadia were later killed by the same unit
They turned out to be Pakistani Pathans.
