Lt Gen Jameel Mahmood was the General Officer Commander-in-Chief

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 (GOC-in-C), Eastern Command of the Indian Army

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. He was killed with his wife in a helicopter crash.

Biography

He was a born in Mysore, India and was the brother-in-law of Lt Gen (retd.) Mohammad Ahmed Zaki of the Indian Army

Indian Army

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. His son, Brigadier Ali Adil Mahmood is an armoured corps

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 officer in the Indian Army

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, and was commandant of the President's Bodyguard

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 regiment, prior to his promotion as Brigadier

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He was an alumnus of the Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore

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, India

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See also

• Hyderabadi Muslims
• Golkonda
  Golkonda
  Golkonda or Golla konda a ruined city of south-central India and capital of ancient Kingdom of Golkonda , is situated 11 km west of Hyderabad.The most important builder of Golkonda was a Hindu Kakatiya King...
  
  
• Hyderabad State
  Hyderabad State
  -After Indian independence :When India gained independence in 1947 and Pakistan came into existence in 1947, the British left the local rulers of the princely states the choice of whether to join one of the new dominions or to remain independent...
  
  
• India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  
• Muslim culture of Hyderabad
  Muslim culture of Hyderabad
  Hyderabadi Muslims are a community of Urdu-speaking Muslims from the area that used to be the princely state of Hyderabad, India. With its origins in the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate and then Deccan sultanates, the culture became defined in the latter half of the reign of the Nizam dynasty in Hyderabad...
  
  
• History of Hyderabad
  History of Hyderabad
  Hyderabad is an historic city noted for its many monuments, temples, churches, masjids, and bazaars. A multitude of influences has shaped the character of the city in the last 400 years....
  
   for a history of the city of Hyderabad.
• Hyderabad (India) for the city.