GEN JN CHAUDHRY, Former Chief of army staff .He took over from Gen Thapar after 1962 debacle at thehands of china. Ill equipped and poorly motivaed Indian army met utter defeat at the hands of PLA. Thanks to coterie of Nehru and Menon along with Gen Thapar As a Maj Gen, he conducted police action earlier against Hyderabad princely state of Hyderabad in sept 1948 leading to its surrender. He invaded Hyderabad kingdom from four fronts. WW II vintage Sherman medium and stuart light tanks were part of the formations during the invasion that broke the back of Hyderabad army and Razakars the nizams ugly Razakar militia under Kasim Razvi. Razvi boasted that he would fly Nizams Asafia flag on Red fort, and that waters from Bay of Bengal would wash feet of Nizam. He also claimed that he would build graves of nehru and patel at Delhi. Razakars were mowed down on all fronts and Razvi was arrested. He was sentenced to ten years rigorous prison term by a civil court comprising judges from different religions. Kasim Razvi was tried for Bibinagar dacoity case apart from the murder of a journalist Shoebulla khan who led one man crusade against Nizams policies in the state of Hyderabad . Razvi was however acquitted of Murder charge due to lack of evidence but was convicted of dacoity charge . He served the sentence in Chanchalguda jail at Hyderabad and at Pune jail and immediately after release , migrated to Pakistan .
Gen Chaudhry was the army chief during .1965 Indo pak war and he led India to victory, He was the founding father of Border security force.
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