Ravindra Kaushik, former RAW agent, Real 'Black Tiger'

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The real life behind a 2002 spy thriller

Presley Thomas, Hindustan Times
December 06, 2009


Seven years ago, Maloy Krishna Dhar wrote Mission to Pakistan: An Intelligence Agent in Pakistan, describing the life of an Indian spy. The former joint director of India's Intelligence Bureau had always said his book was based on the life of an agent but he never revealed his identity.


In all likelihood, the real-life spy was Ravindra Kaushik, who died a humiliating death as Nabi Ahmed in 2002 at the age of 50 in a jail in Multan.

Seven years after he died, based on interviews with intelligence officials and Kaushik's brother Rajeshwarnath, who lives in Jaipur, HT pieced together the Indian agent's life story.

"There are resemblances between Kaushik's character and my book's protagonist," Dhar finally admitted.

Born and brought up in Sriganganagar, a border town in Rajasthan, Kaushik grew up to be a charismatic college student, with above-average intelligence and looks. He was theatrically inclined, and staged mono-acting skits in college.

As an impressionable teenager growing up between 1965 and 1971, when India went to war with Pakistan, Kaushik became a fervent patriot.

"It was probably his mono-act in college in which he played an Indian army officer who refused to divulge information to China that caught the attention of intelligence officers," said Rajeshwarnath Kaushik, two years younger than Ravindra.

Soon after completing his Bachelors in Commerce, Kaushik left for Delhi, entering a world of intrigue and danger.

He moved from there to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, ending up in Pakistan, writing letters home every once in a while to let his family know of his whereabouts.

In Pakistan, he converted to Islam, changed his name, married a local girl, graduated from a law college and finally, became the ultimate insider by entering the Pakistani army.

But just when he had infiltrated the inner fortress, his career came to an abrupt halt. In 1983, when he was 29, an Indian agent called Inayat Masiha, caught by Pakistan as he was crossing the border, blew Kaushik's cover.

Masiha arranged to meet with Kaushik in a park, where Pakistan's intelligence agencies arrested him on charges of espionage and threw him into a Multan jail. He remained there for 18 years.

Just three days before his death, he wrote a bitter letter home: "Had I been an American, I would have been out of this jail in three days."

The only thing the government did after he died was to send his parents some money every month as pension, said Rajeshwar. The family first got Rs. 500 a month, and after a few years, they began receiving Rs. 2,000 a month -- until 2006, when their mother Amladevi died. Their father had already died of a stroke two years following his son's death.

The only person in India who cherishes Kaushik's memory is his younger brother. "He will always remain important for me," Rajeshwar said. "But for the country, he was just another agent."


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respect. even at the height of cold war western and eastern countries liberate their spies from behind the enemy line by direct action or diplomacy but here the govt and structure is so dumb to even think anything or even acknowledgment of our people on duty. last time i heard govt saying we dont have spying policies and dont do anything like this. offcourse a false statement but why do actually mean it by not helping spies families and them in case of being caught by the enemy
 

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Real-life story behind Indian spy novel revealed




A few years ago, Maloy Krishna Dhar, a longtime veteran of India's Central Intelligence Bureau (CIB), wrote Mission to Pakistan,

a spy novel about the ongoing intelligence war between nuclear powers India and Pakistan. Since 2002, when the novel was published,

Dhar has maintained that the exploits of his protagonist, an undercover Indian spy leading a double life inside the Pakistani armed forces,

were based on the true story of an unnamed CIB agent who was active in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It now appears that the real-life

story behind the book is that of Ravindra Kaushik, an accredited CIB agent who moved to Pakistan from Dubai, converted to Islam, married

a Pakistani woman, and joined the country's Army under the cover name "Nabi Ahmed". Kaushik grew up in Sri Ganganagar, a town just a few

miles from the Pakistani border in India's state of Rajasthan. In the early 1970s, he was recruited by CIB and was stationed in Dubai.

It was from there that he moved to Pakistan with a fake Pakistani passport and began his double life. But in 1983, Inayat Masiha, an Indian

intelligence operative who was captured by Pakistani counterintelligence agents, blew Kaushik's cover. The undercover spy was arrested soon

afterwards, and jailed in the central Pakistani city of Multan. He reportedly died there in 2002, aged 50. His brother, Rajeshwar Kaushik, who spoke

to India's Hindustan Times, told the paper that three days before his death, Ravindra sent his relatives in India a bitter letter, complaining that

"[had] I been an American, I would have been out of this jail in three days".

By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org |



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@Yusuf . . . .Could you shed more light on this ? >>
IK Gujral wanted legacy. Thought he would resolve all outstanding issues and as a "confidence builder", compromised all of RAWs assets. All of them were eliminated by Pakis.
RAW has not been the same again since.
 

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Former IB joint director pens spy novel
June 26, 2007


This is a "near-real life classic story" says its author Maloy Krishna Dhar, former joint director of the Intelligence Bureau, India's internal intelligence agency.


Dhar has penned a novel named Operation Triple X, an Indian spy-run in Pakistan to be published soon by Manas publications.

Dhar has completely revamped his previous novel Mission to Pakistan – An Intelligence Agent in Pakistan to write the new book, claims his publisher Vivek Garg.

His previous non-fiction book Open Secrets: India's Intelligence Unveiled had become quite controversial attracting some harsh reviews. This time also his new book will raise some controversies.

Dhar claims that Operation Triple X is based on the real life story of Ravindra Kaushik, an Indian sleuth belonging to the Research & Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.

According to the author, Kaushik died in a Pakistani jail.

Dhar claims that Kaushik had changed his identity and was known in Pakistan as Hanif. He managed to join the Pakistan Army [ Images ], too. But he was "exposed" and arrested. He had two children from a Pakistani wife.

"In 1998, the Pakistan Human Rights Commission traced him. Till then, the government of India had denied his existence. He was seriously ill and some medicines were also sent from India. He was injected with opium by Pakistani authorities to make him senile," Dhar adds.

Before writing the novel, Dhar met Kaushik's family. The novel has shades of Veer Zaara [ Images ], the Hindi film in which Shahrukh Khan [ Images ] and Preity Zinta [ Images ] starred.

Dhar's hero, the Indian spy, goes to Pakistan, changes his identity and name to Harfan and falls in love with Pakistan beauty Jamilla, daughter of an industrialist.

Their son Pervez becomes his weak link. Many times Harfan feels like telling the truth to Jamilla. Dhar has tried to narrate his anguish of hidden identity, and his spy-craft in detail.

Harfan joins the Pakistan Army, but after some years his identity is compromised. Alam, his master handler, wants to eliminate him to save his own skin. Pakistan's intelligence agency wants to kill him for obvious reasons. The story is about his escape from Pakistan.

Operation Triple X is developed in the background of India-Pakistan relations between 1964 and 1971.

To avoid defamation or governmental ban, Dhar has dubbed RAW as National Security India.

However, former additional secretary of the Cabinet Secretariat and well-known columnist B Raman told rediff.com, "Since its inception in 1968, no officer of RAW has died in Pakistan."

Dhar, while speaking to rediff.com, explained his motive behind writing this story. "In India no credible spy story has been told. In the US and UK, there are many authors who have written spy stories, which have caught the imagination of the people," he said.

Dhar says in his novel he has written about how an intelligence agent is recruited, trained, how he infiltrates and parks himself in the target country.

"This craft of spying is given in great detail in this book. Since nobody would be interested in reading these things in non-fiction form, I gave it in a fiction format," he says.

Dhar has interwoven history and his fiction in such a manner that many would like to question the author's motive. Dhar agrees that to avoid attracting defamation of any kind, he has used format of fiction to reveal his knowledge of spy-craft.

When asked why he is revealing "trade secrets", Dhar says, "In India we are living in the 18th and 19th centuries. The concept of security has changed. This is the 21st century. Whatever CIA does today people come to know tomorrow. In the US and UK there are committees which overlook or review their operations."

"CIA's stance over Iraq stands exposed, but what about the Indian intelligence's role in Kargil [ Images ]? Here no heads rolled. Rather, the chief of RAW was awarded governorship in Arunachal Pradesh and the IB fellow went to Nagaland. I want our intelligence agencies to become accountable," he says.

Dhar says his account of Pakistan, and its leaders like Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Yahya Khan is not charitable. Similarly, a Congress politician Ram Karan Prasad, a character in the book, is portrayed as the typical corrupt politician who indulges in smuggling and other nefarious activities.

But, he has praised Indira Gandhi [ Images ] for her role in creation of Bangladesh. "Indira gave glory to India by winning the war of Bangladesh," Dhar says.

Dhar, in real life, was a sleuth for more than 30 years in IB, but has written a novel based on a RAW sleuth.

"The craft of spying is the same in internal or external intelligence agencies. It's like physics or chemistry. It's just science. People should not object to my writing about it. There are no state secrets where national interest gets affected," Dhar adds.

Dhar's next book is on the electoral system of India and is named We, The People of India. And later, he will come out with a book on the Operation Black Thunder of Punjab [ Images ]. He himself participated in it as a very important operator of the IB.


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Why does Indian intelligence fail?
August 17, 2006

Maloy Krishna Dhar, a former Joint Director, Intelligence Bureau, reveals the reasons for India's intelligence failures.

Each time there is a terrorist and jihadi strike in India, we blame the intelligence agencies of failing to anticipate and prevent the attack.
Why do we fail?

We fail because the central Intelligence Bureau, the government's cutting edge internal security tool, is ill-prepared to combat aggressive operations of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence agency, Bangladesh's Directorate General of Forces Intelligence and Islamist tanzeems.

The Bureau has well-trained, motivated and dedicated operators to gather intelligence and operate along areas of national fault lines. The IB operates through its Central Operations Units and Subsidiary Units in states. From the Northeast to Gujarat, Kashmir [ Images ] to Kanyakumari, it has a vast geographical area and extremely complex problems to grapple with. And with Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal and Pakistan factors thrown in, the Bureau finds it nose drowned under the flood of events that threaten the nation. The IB is simply not equipped to handle the enormous canvas, which is getting murkier by the day.

Among other things, it suffers from:

Lack of trained manpower at the operative level;
Inadequacy of modern training to combat acts of terrorism and insurgency;
Lack of electronic and technical intelligence equipments for combating the vast and expanding fields of information and communication technology;
Near inability to generate Human Assets in target areas where the indigenous and foreign jihadists establish nests, modules, cells and chains of secondary support system. The IB has not yet opted for certain 'unorthodox' tradecraft that can enable it to penetrate the target areas. It relies more on limited electronic and technical intelligence to cover trans-border movements, induction of arms, explosives and trained jihadists from Pakistan and Bangladesh;
The IB has very little support from sister agencies like the R&AW about location, preparation and planning of the jihadist tanzeems in Pakistan, Bangladesh and other countries-the UK, USA, Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal and certain European destinations.
Support system from other friendly countries are not threat and issue specific. India can urge the friendly nations to reorient their tools to cover the jihadist thrust in the subcontinent, as it has emerged as the neuronal epicentre of East-Far East-West journey of jihadist impulses.
The information and operations sharing mechanism between the Centre and the states is in rudimentary stage. It should be augmented under the auspices of the National Security Council. The Electronic, Technical and Image Intelligence data collation and monitoring system at the central and state levels require integration under the auspices of the NSC. The same facility should be able to integrate with the existing agencies that are engaged in handling suspected line, air and electronic cipher traffic and the www menace.
The Intelligence Bureau require immediate geographic, operational and resources expansion. The Union government, as indicated by the prime minister, should pay immediate attention to these burning needs. This exercise should be completed within next five years after speedy determination of National Intelligence Estimate (revised periodically). Otherwise, the IB will continue to lag behind the cancer of jihadist thrust. The authorities should not forget that besides carrying out serial bombings the jihadists under the protective umbrella of the ISI, Bangladesh's DGFI and the Al Qaeda [ Images ] Inc are capable of importing and indigenously manufacturing of weapons of mass destruction. The CIA does not rule out the possibility of Al Qaeda Inc developing crude and dirty nuclear bombs.
People have the right to know the threat quantum they face from inimical forces and should also be assured that the government, besides scanning the sensex graph and the GNP/GDP arithmetic is duty bound to protect lives and properties of the citizen. People are threatened by a new kind of war, which is known to the people of the Northeast, Punjab [ Images ] and Kashmir. But for the heartland and peninsular India, it is a new experience. They have to live with it and compel their politicians to look beyond the ballot boxes and 'secular fences.' The state and central governments must prove that they are capable of governing. They should be able to protect or prepare to perish.
The Intelligence Bureau is not equipped to monitor the web sites of the Islamist jihadist groups. They do not have superfast computers, nationwide networking and surveillance capability on the servers of the ISP providers. Only prolonged studies and research can decipher the coding pattern and transmission trademark of each terror group. These require regular logging and liasing with western agencies who have made forward strides, especially after the 9/11 Al Qaeda attack. Other nodal points in the government should embark upon the task of monitoring the virtual www world and share their inputs online with the central and state intelligence agencies.
The IB is also required to develop a focussed, dedicated and self-contained research and operations group to work at ground and desk levels to assess, anticipate, follow and pre-empt conspiracies and execution plans of the ISI, DGFI, Islamist tanzeems across the subcontinent.
The IB should be empowered to act and neutralise such enemies of the country, wherever possible, in concerted operations with the State agencies. The question of empowering the IB with limited 'retaliatory forward operations' capability should be seriously examined with a view to paying back the responsible tanzeems in their own coin.

We fail because the IB is not allowed by the government to expose its wares to the larger audience of any parliamentary watchdog body. The country is not entitled to know why they fail and why they cannot be made failproof. The agency is out of bounds for the RTI Act of 2005. It should at least be made accountable to Parliament, so that people can know how their money is being spent and how the political masters manipulate the agencies.

The people have a right to know. Failures cannot be covered up behind the veil of departmental security rules.

We fail because our coastal policing and intelligence gathering mechanism is appallingly poor. Besides the Coast Guard, which normally patrol the deeper shallow waters and the Border Security Force, which covers certain eastern riverine borders with Bangladesh, the state governments do not take coastal policing seriously. The existing police forces are not adequate, trained and equipped to police the vast western coastal area from Kot Lakhpat to Wapi in Gujarat and Daman near Maharashtra [ Images ] to Bhatkal in Karnataka [ Images ] and beyond in Kerala [ Images ].

Besides over a dozen major ports, the western coast has nearly 150 minor ports, over 200 landing sites and over 500 shallow landing creeks. The police and Customs presence in the major ports aside, there is skeletal or no Customs or police presence in minor ports and nothing at all in the landing sites and shallow creeks. The police departments have a few slow moving dhows and negligible fast boats without GPS technology. Pakistan and other jihadist forces can land any amount of arms and explosives through the vast unmanned western coastal area. India has no blueprint to tackle this menace.

A nation under attack still thinks 'people's resilience' is the only weapon to fight the jihadist forces. When shall we wake up to the needs for a special coastal policing and intelligence system?

We fail because our disaster management mechanism is appallingly neglected. There exists a high sounding body in Delhi [ Images ], fat at the top minus vital limbs. The state governments are not concerned about managing disasters beyond paying ex-gratia grants to the dead and injured. The Central Disaster Management outfit should be integrated with the state outfits and a unified command structure is required to be in position with adequate resources. Response time should be minimised to 10 minutes at proximate locations and not more than 20 minutes at difficult locations.

We fail because Pakistan, Bangladesh and other Islamist forces are rapidly salvaging the 'communal debris' left by the scars of Partition. Politicians are aiding these forces by mimicking the British 'divide and rule' policy. They are fuelling the ruffled sentiments that arise out of poverty, lack of education and opportunities. Our system has failed to address these crying needs.

The political class has failed to bridge the gaps left by Partition. They have widened the gaps through vote catching slogans and are doing precious little for them. The poor among the Muslims are as poor as the poor in any other community. They live, because they happen to be born. Nothing beyond!

We fail because we suspect each other. We fail because even the Hindus are fragmented. We fail because we do not behave as a united people. Our unity, our ability to rebuff dubious politicians and our resolve to rise above the ghost of history can act as sure deterrence against the war imposed on us.

This is not a war by Muslims against Hindus. It is a war against India by the foreign-based jihadist forces headed by Pakistan, Bangladesh and International Islamist Inc. Every Indian is required to unitedly fight these enemies.

The foreign forces should not succeed in subverting our own people by taking advantage of lapses committed by the political caricatures. We must remember that Indian Muslims did not fight in Afghan jihad and Pakistan's Kashmir jihad. They are one of us and we shall triumph together.

M K Dhar is the author of Open Secrets and Fulcrum of Evil-ISI-CIA-Al Qaeda Nexus and other books. Available at [email protected]

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What an idiot the one who blew his cover. Imagine an indian of the rank of at least a brigadier in the Pak Army!!

I hope there are more such people in PA serving india right now. That is if IK Gujral didn't compromise them.

AFAIK, intelligence agents have to lead the life of an unrecognized soldier. The government cannot acknowledge that. I think they are informed as much too that if they are captured, they will be on their own.
That's fine but our gov. can do back channel negotiations to release our men, like offering their men as exchange and we must treat their family at least with that unfortunate's salary.
 

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Ravindra Kaushik was born in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan in the year 1952.He was a good theater artist. During a national level drama presentation he came in contact with RAW, the Indian intelligence agency. He completed his graduation at the age of 23. After graduation Ravindra Kaushik Joined RAW.

In 1983 he was caught and sentenced to death for spying. Later his death sentence was converted into life time imprisonment. India already fought with Pakistan and China. Pakistan was preparing for another war against India. When Indian army got this information, they sent Ravinder Kaushik to Pakistan as Indian Spy with the help of RAW.

There Ravindra Kaushik took admission in Law College and completed his graduation in Law and then after learned Urdu also. After completing graduation, he joined Pakistani Army as an officer and went up being promoted to the rank of 'Major'.. He fell in love with a local Pakistani girl and married her. In Pakistan he spied with new name Nabi Ahmed. He was the 'Black Tiger' of RAW . Some say it was rewarded by India's then home minister S.B. Chavan while others testify that the Title was conferred by then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.

He was in Pakistan Army from 1979 to 1983 and during this tenure he dispatched valuable information to RAW which was of great help to the Indian defence mechanism. But unfortunately Ravindra was caught by Pakistan. They put him in jail where he was tortured. In the 1985 he was awarded death sentence which was subsequently converted into life imprisonment. Kaushik remained in various jails from where he somehow sent letters which revealed the pathetic health condition and the trauma faced by him in Pakistani jails. Ravindra Kaushik spent 18 years in Pakistani jails, where he contracted Asthma and TB. He died on 21 November 2001 in a jail at Mianwali. He was buried behind that jail.

He spend 30 years of his life away from his home and family in Pakistan in very unfavourable conditions, only because of his love for the Nation that is India. Indian army killed more than 50 soldiers of Pakistani army in Pahalgaon because they fought with the strategy send by Ravindra Kaushik.

The much hyped Salman Katrina starrer has gathered a lot of controvesy as the promos draw a startling similarlity with this Former RAW agent's life story. Vikram Vashishtha, nephew of Late Ravindra Kaushik even slammed a leagal notice to the production company. But the production house & the director told the media that "Ek Tha Tiger" is about him.

Whatever the truth is now we do know who the real TIGER was. Kudos to Late Ravindra Kaushik, a real patriot of Mother land who even left his true Indentity behind to serve his nation.

Respect & Salute!!!!
He did a great job for his beloved motherland , he sacrified his family for his motherland and spent 18 years in pakistani jails in a brutal behave of pakistani authorities , he wrote few letters from there, which shows how he was brave and full of patriot zeal,i am the real maternal nephew of martyr ravinder kaushik, i have been fighting to recognize his sacrification from the govt since 2002
 

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He did a great job for his beloved motherland , he sacrified his family for his motherland and spent 18 years in pakistani jails in a brutal behave of pakistani authorities , he wrote few letters from there, which shows how he was brave and full of patriot zeal,i am the real maternal nephew of martyr ravinder kaushik, i have been fighting to recognize his sacrification from the govt since 2002
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A real Salute to Our Real Hero
But I want to ask some question question, jaise CIA agent ke liye special weapons create kiye gaye hai kya hamare agents ke liye bhi waise weapons hai
 

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Remake the movie - Ek Tha Tiger with a bit of realism as penned in the RAW chief's novel.

The current movie is more of a love story in a typical Bollywood style. It even lacks entertainment.

Brick bats to the producer of this movie.
 

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The real tiger.......

THE REAL TIGER.......



Ravindra Kaushik (1952–2001) was a former RAW agent who was caught and jailed in Pakistan where he eventually died

Early life :

Ravinder Kaushik was born in Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan on April 11, 1952. He was a famous theater artist and displayed his talent at the national level dramatic meet in Lucknow, which was witnessed by some officials of the Indian Intelligence Agency RAW. He was contacted and offered a job for being an undercover agent of India in Pakistan. At the age of 23, he was sent to Pakistan on a mission


In Pakistan :

Ravinder Kaushik was recruited by RAW and was given extensive training in Delhi for two years. Sunnat (circumcision) was performed on him to show him as a Muslim. He was taught Urdu, given religious education and acquainted with the topography and other details about Pakistan. Being from Punjab-speaking Sri Ganganager, he was well versed in the language which is spoken in major part of Pakistan.

In 1975 he was sent to Pakistan and given the name Nabi Ahmed Shakir. He successed in getting admission in Karachi University and completed his LLB. He joined Pakistan Army and become a commissioned officer and later was promoted to the rank of a Major. He married a local girl Amanat, and became father of a girl.

From 1979 to 1983, while in military service, he passed on valuable information to RAW which was of great help to the Indian defence forces.

He was given the title of 'Black Tiger' by India's then home minister S.B. Chavan. Some testify that the title was conferred by then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.

He spent 26 years of his life away from his home and family in Pakistan in very unfavourable conditions.


During War :

Using the secret information provided by Ravinder Kaushik, India formulated a strategy that was always one step ahead of Pakistan's and checkmated it's war plans. On many occasions Pakistan prepared to wage war across the borders of Rajasthan in India, but they were foiled due to the timely advance warning given by Ravinder Kaushik, as he was a senior military officer in Pakistan by now and had access to top secret information.



Death and aftermath :

In September 1983, Indian intelligence agencies had sent an agent, Inyat Masiha, to get in touch with Black Tiger. But the agent was caught by Pakistan's intelligence agencies and revealed Ravinder Kaushik's true identity.

Kaushik was then captured, tortured for two years at an interrogation centre in Sialkot. Ravinder was awarded death sentence in the year 1985. His sentence was later commuted to a life term by the Pakistan Supreme court.

Kaushik was kept in various jails, including Sialkot, Kot Lakhpat and in Mianwali jail for 16 years, where he contracted Asthma and TB. He managed to secretly send letters to his family in India, which revealed his poor health condition and the trauma faced by him in Pakistani jails.

In one of his letters he wrote,

"Kya Bharat jaise bade desh ke liye kurbani dene waalon ko yahi milta hai?" (Is this the reward a person gets for sacrificing his life for India?)

On 21 November 2001, he succumbed to pulmonary tuberculosis and heart disease in New Central Jail Multan. He was buried behind that jail.

Ravindra's family claimed that the story line of the famous Bollywood flick "Ek Tha Tiger" released in the year 2012 was based on the life of Ravindra & asked for the credit in the movie titles for Ravindra


Whatever the truth is now we do know who the real TIGER was. Kudos to Late Ravindra Kaushik, a real patriot of Mother land who even left his true Indentity behind to serve his nation.

Respect & Salute! ! !
 

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Re: The real tiger.......

Do his wife and daughter get benefits from GOI?
 

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Re: The real tiger.......

Do his wife and daughter get benefits from GOI?
This cannot be expected as a known person who is serving in the Indian Army itself is not even being respected, and here you ask something for an unknown INDIAN SPY(unknown according to the GoI as per espionage rules).
 

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Re: The real tiger.......

my utmost respect to him for giving the supreme sacrifice for the sake of our motherland:salute:may his soul rest in peace:india:
 

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A very brave man. I believe there must be countless stories like this just waiting to be discovered.

I know of a similar incident. My mother, a KV teacher was once handling primary admissions and was surprised to see a 50 yrs old, admitting his 6 yr old daughter. Curiosity got the better of my mother and she couldn't help if this was indeed his own daughter. In response, the man related a tale of a lifetime spent spying in Pakistan. The man had lived for 26 years in Pakistan. He went there as a teen, married, worked and had two daughters and married off one of them. He didn't say why he returned, but said he came back 7 years ago and remarried again. The fact that this guy was now employed in some capacity with the army does show the army does take care of its own even after they have served their purpose as spies.
 

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