Lt Gen PN Hoon, who led 'Operation Meghdoot' to capture Siachen in 1984, passes away

Lt Gen Prem Nath Hoon, who served the army for four decades before hanging up his boots as chief of the Western Command in 1987, passed away in Panchkula on Monday evening at the age of 90. The General died after suffering brain haemorrhage. Lt Gen Hoon led the Operation Meghdoot as the commander of Srinagar-based 15 Corps and helped India in capturing the Siachen glacier in 1984. He was commissioned into the Sikh regiment.