On 4 December 1971, Captain Surendra Kaushik with two tanks was assigned the task of preventing the enemy armour advancing along the Dewa axis in the Chhamb Sector. He deployed his tanks on the Guran heights. The enemy advancing towards Chhamb attacked his tanks with two squadrons of armour. Undeterred by the enemy's superiority in numbers and pressure, he stuck to his position and presented strong resistance, hitting back at the enemy tanks and foiling their desperate bids to breakthrough till his position was reinforced with a troop from another armoured regiment. The attack on 5 December was also repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy. In the encounters, Captain Kaushik and his crew in two tanks had destroyed nine enemy T-59 tanks and three recoilless guns. Throughout, Captain Kaushik displayed gallantry, leadership and professional skill of a high order.