Lt. Col. Hanut Singh Rathore (Maha Veer Chakra) of 17 Poona Horse with his Centurion tank, Kooshab. The regiment is one of the most decorated in the Armoured Corps and in 1965 it had already been awarded with one PVC, only to win another in 1971 at the Battle of Basantar in which 66 Pakistani tanks were claimed to have been destroyed. Hanut Singh is the elder brother of former Finance minister of India Jaswant Singh Jasol ( Jasol is the name of the village in Barmer district of Rajasthan).

He retired as Lt. General. He is highly religious and was named to be the army general but when Mrs. Indira Gandhi (then Prime Minister) phoned him twice, he refused to talk as he was in prayer room. Mrs. Gandhi herself wrote on his file that "he is too religious to be an army general".