Head constable Dhanawade, who joined the Central Reserve Police Force in 2000, is survived by wife, two children and mother.
A pall of gloom descended on the village after the news of Dhanawade's death came.
Eight security personnel, including four CRPF men, were killed when militants carried out a suicide attack on a district police complex in south Kashmir's Pulwama yesterday. The three terrorists were also killed in the massive gunfight.