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New Delhi: The grave of Brigadier Mohammad Usman, the highest ranking officer to die in action during the first India-Pakistan war in 1947-48, has been damaged, allegedly by miscreants.
The grave is located in south Delhi’s Batla House Qabristan near Jamia Millia Islamia.
Known as ‘Naushera ka Sher’ (the Lion of Naushera), Usman led the 50 (Independent) Parachute Brigade which famously recaptured Jhangar and Naushera two strategic locations in Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan in 1948.
Usman’s funeral was attended by then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, President Dr Rajendra Prasad, Governor General C. Rajagopalachari, and many other cabinet ministers, according to a report by
Grave of national hero, laid to rest near Jamia university, falls into disrepair
Brigadier Mohammad Usman died on July 3, 1948, when an artillery shell landed close to him. He was posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra, the second-highest military decoration, and became known by the epithet “Naushera ka Sher”. Updated: December 29, 2020 1:11:05 pm
Brig Usman’s has been buried in the graveyard’s ‘VIP section’ .
Among the gravestones of various luminaries who lie buried in the graveyard near Jamia Millia Islamia, one with a white marble covering is conspicuous as a significant portion of its front is broken.
The epitaph on the grave of Brigadier Mohammad Usman, the highest-ranking Army officer to have been killed in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, details his life and how his decisions and actions in a newly independent and conflicted nation led him to be recognised as a national hero.
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