Randhir Prasad Verma was an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n police officer who died while trying to resist a robbery attempt in a bank in Dhanbad

Dhanbad

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. He was posthumously awarded gallantry award Ashok Chakra. The Government of India

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 also issued a Commemorative postage stamp in his honor in 2004.

He was born in 1952 in Saharsa district

Saharsa District

Saharsa is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar, India. Saharsa town is the administrative headquarters of this district. Saharsa district is a part of a larger territory, the Kosi Division and it became a district on 1 April 1954 and subsequently has become smaller with other districts being...

 of Bihar

Bihar

Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....

 and studied at St. John's High School, Ranchi

St. John's High School, Ranchi

St. John's High School is a school in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.The school was founded in 1887 and named the following year after Saint John Berchmans, a young Belgian Jesuit who had been canonised in Rome that year. The school is situated at Purulia Road, and educates pupils from class 7 to class...

 and Patna College. He joined the Indian Police Service

Indian Police Service

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 in 1974. As a police officer he eliminated many criminal gangs.

While serving in Dhanbad as the Superintendent of Police he died while resisting robbery at Bank of India

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 branch on 3 January 1991.

His widow Rita Verma

Rita Verma

Rita Verma is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. She is a former Minister of State of Mines and Minerals in the Indian government....

 later joined politics and was elected to Lok Sabha

Lok Sabha

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