Brij Mohan Kaul Brij Mohan Kaul was a Lt General & the Chief of General Staff ( CoGS ) in the Indian Army . He resigned in the aftermath of the 1962 Sino - Indian War . He was responsible for raising and expanding Jammu and Kashmir militia which later entered Indian Army as Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry , and was awareded the Param Vishisht Seva Medal in 1960 . Personal life . He was born in 1912 on Buddha Jayanti to Jag Mohan and krishna in Lahore . He had 2 brothers - Kishen Kumar Kaul and Shyam Kumar Kaul and 2 sisters - Manorama and Dulhari . He was married to Dhanraj Kishori and had two daughters Anuradha and Chitralekha . Career . After graduating from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst , Brij Mohan Kaul joined the Army service corps of the 5th Battalion of 6th Rajputana Rifles . In October 1946 , he became secretary to " Armed forces nationalisation committee " constituted by Viceroy . Coincidentally , it was led by N Gopalawami Ayengar , later defense minister , with members including future Chief of Army Staff General Thimayya , future Pakistan Army chief Muhammad Musa and future Indian MP H . N . Kunzru . The General Officer was well known to be the " personal favourate " of Jawahar Lal Nehru since his junior officer days . He received a number of undue professional favours throughout his career due to this personal connection and he made full use of this opportunity with utter disregard to the Army organisation . He managed to keep himself away from hardship and learning the nuances of a military commander as a junior officer and later in service , managed to grab important Army senior command appointments due to his " pull " . His involvement with Jawahar Lal Nehru later turned out to be a major reason for shamefull loss and massacre of Indian troops at the hands of the Chinese . In 1947 , Brij was a defence attache in Washington . He returned to India in the aftermath of Indian Pakistan hostilities over Kashmir . In 1962 , Indian army Lt General B . M . Kaul was appointed as the commander of " IV Corp " s in the north eastern region of India . Operation leghorn . In 1962 , the then Chief of General Staff ( CGS ) of Indian Army , Lt General B . M . Kaul was appointed as the General officer Commanding ( GOC ) the North east , replacing Lt General Umrao Singh . Kaul was to head the newly appointed IV Corps at Tezpur , however no new troops were sent to the corps with only the new headquarter staff being deployed there . The entire NEFA ( North East Frontier Agency ) , now Arunachal Pradesh was made Kaul ' s domain . On his first day of assignment , Kaul flew to Lumpu & then trekked to Namkachu valley . He was the first General officer to visit the valley . Under his leadership , the Indian patrol occupied Tse Jong , a hillock north - west of the Chinese settlement . Kaul reportedly fell ill during the assignment and was deported to New Delhi . The IV Corps was wiped out when an 800 strong enemy force raided the camp . The battle with China in 1962 , in the NEFA , is also known as the " Battle of Namkachu " . Param Vishisht Seva Medal . He was also the first ever recipient of the Param Vishisht Seva Medal instituted by the Indian government in 1960 . His citation reads : " For successfully completing the project ' Amar ' which entailed the construction of 1 , 450 quarters for troops in Ambala . This was the first project of its kind and was completed through hot weather and the monsoons in the face of numerous problems . Lt . - Gen . Kaul overcame these difficulties by dint of hard work and initiative of the highest order . He displayed organising ability , drive , and resourcefulness . It was by his determination , leadership and personal example that the task was completed by due date " . Books Authored . He wrote his side of the story about operation leghorn in the book " The Untold Story " and , in another book , " Confrontation with Pakistan " , where he predicted the 1971 war with Pakistan . He was working on a third book , when he died of a heart attack on 18 April 1972 in New Delhi .