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Description India's Army most Decorated Soldier : Col N.J Nair.

Recipient of Kirti chakra and Ashoka chakra Gallantry award

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Date of publication 2005
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair
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Other information The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1993

Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair was commissioned into 16 Maratha Light Infantry on 18 June 1971. In 1993, 16 Maratha Light Infantry was deployed in Nagaland. 20 Dec 1993 while heading an advance party of the battalion the convoy was ambushed by Naga rebels. Col NJ Nair displayed indomitable courage in leading the attack personally to break the ambush and sacrificed his life defending his men. For this supreme act of valour he was conferred the 'Ashoka Chakra'

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