Vir Chakra (VrC)

Lieutenant Commander Joginder Krishan Suri was second in Command of INS Khukri, which sank in the Arabian Sea after a Pakistani submarine attack. On 9 December, 1971, when his ship was hit by enemy torpedoes, Lieutenant Commander Suri realizing the danger to his men, rushed and cut all the life saving floats and rafts and threw them in the sea. Despite the fact that the chances of his survival were getting less every second, he continued to guide his men to safety and managed to save a large number of them. in so doing he made the supreme sacrifice. 

Throughout, Lieutenant Commander Suri displayed courage and devotion to duty of a high order.