Ghatak Platoon, or Ghatak Commandos (Lethal Commandos), is a special operations capable infantry platoon from an infantry battalion in Indian army. The most physically fit and motivated soldiers in an infantry battalion are selected to be a part of the Ghatak Platoon. Lieutenant Praveen Kumar is one of the members of it. On 15 July 99, Lieutenant Praveen Kumar alongwith Ghatak Platoon was ordered to capture Point 5310 in Chorbatla Sector during Op Vijay. Lieutenant Praveen Kumar organized his Ghatak Platoon into three groups and carried out several rehearsals on mock features and trained the Ghatak Platoon in the techniques of glaciated operations. On 20 July 1999, he along with two men carried out detailed reconnaissance of the feature and selected three different approaches for the surprise attack. On 22 July 1999, after final rehearsals, the Ghataks at 21:00 hours began their approach to Point 5310. The first group led by Lieutenant Praveen Kumar negotiated the ice wall almost 300 meters high, crossed a glaciated bowl and a number of crevasses to reach the base of Point 5310. On reaching the base of the objective, he secured the Ghatak base. Thereafter, as planned, the three groups commenced the silent attack from three designated directions. The group led by Lieutenant Praveen Kumar carried out the cliff assault after fixing 250 meters of rope and reached the top and totally surprised the enemy. Thereafter, Lieutenant Praveen Kumar organized his defense, sited automatic weapons and organized Point 5310 into a formidable defensive position. Subsequently, he successfully destroyed four sangars of the enemy, and a small fuel and ammunition dump and killed fifteen of the enemy men by small arms by directing artillery and mortar fire along his route of maintenance opposite Tunuk Sector. Lieutenant Praveen Kumar displayed professional competence, unparalleled and leading to the capture of the objective without any casualty hence he was awarded by Vir Chakra.