![]() ![]() ![]() Its primary objective was to locate the Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikrant and sink or cause extensive damage to the only aircraft carrier, which is the pride of the Indian Navy.Īt 12:15 am on December 3, 4 night, a very loud explosion was heard by the coastal battery deployed near Vishakhapatnam (Vizag) Naval Harbour. On the word go, the Indian Western Naval Command blasted the formidable Karachi harbor and reduced it to ashes within 48 hours after the declaration of war and the Eastern Naval Command pulverised the entire East Pakistan coastal installations and blocked the Pakistani logistics reaching the eastern theatre by affecting naval blockade in the Bay of Bengal.ĭuring November 1971, when the war clouds were hanging low, it came to light through intelligence intercepts that between November 14 and 21, Pakistan dispatched its American made Tech-Class attack submarine PNS Ghazi to the Bay of Bengal. Probably the government of India decided to restrict the scope of the war.īut the 1971 war with Pakistan was a different ball game altogether. In 1965, despite provocation by the Pakistan Navy, the Indian Navy, although raring to go and display its might, was restrained on the leash. Lieutenant Sajjan Kumar Dahiya also did six months’ mine clearance diving course at Portsmouth in England, where he was adjudged the best student officer.įirst war with Pakistan in 1947-48 and the 1962 India-China conflict took place mostly in mountainous terrain, wherein the Indian Navy had no role to play. ![]() After one year of post commission training, Sajjan Kumar, now a Sub Lieutenant, joined INS Trishul. After matriculation from District Board High School, Nahri, he joined the National Defence Academy and was commissioned into the Navy on July 1, 1960. Sajjan Kumar was born on October 20, 1939, at Nahri village. The first two joined the Army and Sajjan Kumar, the youngest preferred the Navy. All three followed into the footsteps of their father and joined the defence services. Awarded Shaurya Chakra for leading diving team, taking on operation to ascertain what the submerged vessel (Ghazi) wasĪ veteran of World War II and 1947-48 India-Pakistan war, Captain Tek Chand Dahiya from Nahri village, in present day Sonepat district, was blessed with three sons. ![]()
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