Naib Subedar Hokato Hotozhe Sema's aspirations were abruptly crushed in October 2002, amidst the unpredictable landscape of Jammu and Kashmir's (J&K) Chowkibal, when a sudden blast during a counter-terrorism mission took his left leg below the knee, shattering his dreams of joining the Special Forces.
The explosion plunged Sema into a seemingly hopeless situation, with those around him believing his world had collapsed.
