Vir Chakra (VrC)

Major Rajendra Kumar Bali was on a liasion visit to the State Reserve Police post in Vigakot in the Kutch area when Pakistani intruders launched an attack on Sardar Post in the early hours of 9 April 1965. After the attack, wireless and telephone communication between Sardar Post and Vigakot failed. Soon after, it was reported that Sardar Post had been over-run. Major Bali helped to reorganise the defences in the Vigakot area and encouraged the State Reserve Police personnel stationed there. After two police patrols had failed to reach Sardar Post owing to shelling by the intruders, Major Bali volunteered to take out a patrol although he knew that the post might be in the hands of the intruders. 

On reaching Sardar Post, he assisted in organising the defences. He arranged to collect the arms, equipment and documents left behind by the intruders. Subsequently, with three riflemen, he captured four Pakistani intruders and a loaded light machine gun. Again on 15 June, disregarding his personal safety, Major Bali courageously went through his own minefields and captured two intruders who had been trapped there.

Throughout, Major Bali displayed cool courage, determination and devotion to duty in the best traditions of the Indian Army.