It is fifteen years since five militants stormed the world's largest democracy's bastion – India's Parliament complex, on December 13, 2001.
The Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) sponsored terrorists were armed with grenades, guns and explosives, but security forces killed them before they could enter the main chamber. Nine precious lives, most of them security officers, were killed while defending the complex and its members.
Here's how it unfolded. While the martyrs' families suffered irreparable losses, India remembers the bravehearts with gratitude.