About Ashok Sodhi
Lived 1963 – 2008 (aged 44–45). Ashok Sodhi was an Indian photojournalist and journalist.
Ashok Sodhi (21 September 1963 – 11 May 2008) was an Indian photojournalist who died in the line of duty in Jammu & Kashmir.
Career Ashok Sodhi worked as a senior photographer for the English-language daily newspaper Daily Excelsior in Jammu.
Death On 11 May 2008, during an armed encounter between militants and security forces in the Samba district of Jammu (near the Indo-Pakistan border), Sodhi was covering the scene when a bullet fired amid the gun-battle struck and killed him.
He is survived by his wife and a daughter.
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Indian photojournalist
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Ashok Sodhi was born in 1963.
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Ashok Sodhi died on 11 May 2008 in Samba district.
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Ashok Sodhi was a photojournalist and journalist.
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