Vinod Kumar Choubey, KC was an Indian Police Service officer who was killed during the Rajnandgaon ambush in July 2009, carried out by Maoist Naxalites. He became the first Indian Police Service officer in the state of Chhattisgarh to die as a result of Naxal violence. Choubey was posthumously awarded the peacetime gallantry award "Kirti Chakra" by then President of India Pratibha Devi Singh Patil.