Naib Subedar Chuni Lal AC, VrC, SM was an Indian Army soldier of 8th battalion.
The Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (8 JAK LI).
He was born in Bhaderwah, and lived in Bhara village in Doda district of Jammu.
Decorated with Vir Chakra and Sena Medal (Gallantry), JC-593527, Lal was martyr on 24 June 2007 in a militant flush-out operation in Kashmir’s Kupwara sector.
These militants, all of whom were also shot dead, were trying to cross the Line of Control (LoC) and enter Indian territory.
The success of this militant flush-out operation, which claimed his life, earned him the highest peacetime military decoration awarded for valor, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield, the Ashok Chakra.