This letter from Government of India, Ministry of Defence confirms that I had participated in a military operation in The Chittagong Hill Tracts during the Indo-Pak War of 1971. It fails to mention the fact of my Unit affiliation during that military operation. The Special Frontier Force under the Command of Major General Sujan Singh Uban conducted a military operation in The Chittagong Hill Tracts. Brigadier T S Oberoi had commanded the three Units deployed in the operational area. Including myself, a total of six Medical Officers took part in this military operation. Four of us were recommended to recieve gallantry awards. Major PCM Mehta AMC/PC, Surgical Specialist, (Honorary)Major Ramesh Chandra, the Senior Medical Officer, Captain Ashok Kumar Jaiswal AMC/PC, Unit Medical Officer of the Unit commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Prasanta Coomar Purkayastha of Garhwal Riffles had received Visisht Seva Medals as recommended. I was the only Medical Officer who was recommended the award of Vir Chakra. Major General Uban, Brigadier Oberoi, Lieutenant Colonel B K Narayan of Artillery Regiment who was my Unit Commander, and all others know the reasons as to why I was recommended to receive the gallantry award of Vir Chakra and not some other award like Visisht Seva Medal which the other three Medical Officers had received. The other two Medical officers who participated in this military operation are Major S P Mehta AMC/PC, the Specialist in Anaesthesia, and Captain Krishnamurthy AMC/PC who was the Medical Officer of the Unit commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Vasudeva of the Regiment of Artillery. Colonel Iqbal Singh of the Regiment of Artillery served as the Chief of Staff at the Force Headquarters. The citation recommending the gallantry award was initiated during the course of this military operation but did not reach the Army Headquarters in a timely manner due to some unknown clerical error at the Army Headquarters Medical Directorate.
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