Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Recipient of Kirti Chakra
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Place of Birth: Ernakulam, Kerala, India
About Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair
- Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair, AC, KC (popularly known as "NJ" ) was a highly decorated officer of the Indian Army.
- Nair commissioned into 16 Maratha Light Infantry on 18 June 1971.
- In 1993, 16 Maratha Light Infantry was deployed in Nagaland.
- On 20 December 1993, while heading an advance party of the battalion, his convoy was ambushed by Naga rebels.
- Nair personally led the attack to break the ambush and sacrificed his life defending his men.
- For this act of valour, he was conferred the Ashoka Chakra.Technically Nair is the most decorated officer of the Indian Army, as the only serviceman to have been awarded both the highest (Ashoka Chakra) and second highest (Kirti Chakra) awards for gallantry.
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