Col Vasanth V, AC (25 March 1967 – 31 July 2007) was the Commanding Officer of 9 Maratha Light Infantry, a unit of the Indian Army. On 31 July 2007, he was killed in action while preventing heavily armed infiltrators from crossing the Indian border at Uri, Jammu and Kashmir.Col Vasanth was awarded the Ashoka Chakra (posthumous), the peacetime equivalent of the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest military decoration for gallantry.