Maj. Gen. Razdan of 7th Parachute Battalion, is also a battle casualty. He was injured in an anti-terrorist operation in Jammu and Kashmir during 1994, which left him paraplegic for life. In spite of the limitation, he has overcome all obstacles to become the first wheel-chair bound general in the Indian Army, a release said. He is currently posted as Assistant Chief Integrated Defence (Counter-terrorism).
Sixteen years ago he was part of a crack team in Kashmir sent to rescue women taken by the Lashkar-e-Toiba as sex slaves.
He recounts killing two terrorists. The third fell face up. “I thought he was dead, but he fired,” he says. “The shot went through my abdomen, my intestines spilled out and my spine broke. I knew I would never walk again. Yet, I shot him dead.”He refused to be evacuated till the encounter was over, sustaining himself on self-administered intravenous drips. He was later awarded the Kirti Chakra.
