Anoop Malhotra
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General Anoop Malhotra (born 1955, in Nainital, India) is a retired Lt General of the Indian Army.
Anoop Malhotra is the son of Colonel A. P. Malhotra and Nand Rani Malhotra (Nando) and nephew of Prem Nath Sahni. He is the youngest of the three sons of Nando the other two being Dr. Ashok Malhotra and Deepak Malhotra [1] who currently lives in Spain and is a British National. He did his early schooling at The Air Force School (Subroto Park) of New Delhi before he was selected to the National Defence Academy (India) for a career in the army.
Career in Artillery
Malhotra was commissioned into the Artillery in 1974.[2] He has completed Advance Gunnery and Long Gunnery Staff Courses at the School of Artillery Deolali; Armament Technology Course at IAT (now DIAT), Girinagar, Pune; Defence Services Staff College Course at Wellington, and the Senior Command Course at College of Combat, Mhow.
While with the Army from 1974 to 1995, Malhotra served in field, medium, light and mountain regiments of the Indian Artillery. He has also had exposures as ADC to GOC of an Infantry Division and Brigade Major of both Infantry and Artillery Brigades. He commanded 312 Field Regiment in the Jammu and Kashmir state when insurgency was at its peak, and "earned many accolades for his service".[3]
During his Command, the Regiment was awarded with the Chief of Army Staffs Unit Commendation in 1995 for Counter Insurgency Operations in the Valley; the first Artillery Regiment to be so awarded in the history of the Indian Army.
