Naib Subedar Chuni Lal was an Indian Army soldier of the Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry (8 JAK LI). Decorated with Ashoka Chakra, Vir Chakra and Sena Medals, he is the most highly decorated Indian army soldier of all time. Lal was born in Bhaderwah, and lived in Bhara village with his parents, Shanker Dass and Shakuntala Devi, in Doda district in Jammu. He was killed in action on 24 June 2007 in an operation in Kashmir's Kupwara sector. The success of this militant flush-out operation earned him the highest peacetime military decoration awarded for valor, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield, the Ashok Chakra.