New Delhi: Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami, who killed 10 guerrillas in 11 days before attaining martyrdom, was on Tuesday posthumously awarded Ashok Chakra, the country's highest peacetime gallantry award, by President Pranab Mukherjee.

The soldier of the army's elite special forces made the supreme sacrifice while fighting the terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir. The award was received by Bhavna Goswami, widow of Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami, at the country's 67th Republic Day.