Background
He is the son of Colonel A. P. Malhotra and Nand Rani Malhotra (Nando).
He is the son of Colonel A. P. Malhotra and Nand Rani Malhotra (Nando).
He has completed Advance Gunnery and Long Gunnery Staff Courses at the School of Artillery Deolali. Armament Technology Course at IAT (now DIAT), Girinagar, Pune. Defence Services Staff College Course at Wellington, and the Senior Command Course at College of Combat, Mhow.
He is the youngest of the three sons of Nando the other two being Doctor Ashok Malhotra and Deepak Malhotra who currently lives in Spain and is a British National. Anoop Malhotra did his early schooling at the The Air Force School (Subroto Park) of New Delhi before he was selected to the National Defence Academy (India) for a career in the army. Anoop Malhotra was commissioned into the Artillery in 1974.
While with the Army from 1974 to 1995, Anoop Malhotra served in field, medium, light and mountain regiments of the Indian Artillery.
He has also had exposures as Aide-de-Camp to GOC of an Infantry Division and Brigade Major of both Infantry and Artillery Brigades. He commanded 312 Field Regiment in the Jammu and Kashmir State when insurgency was at its peak.
As a Brigadier, he headed a Defence Research & Development Organisation Project Site at Nasik for five years until 2005. His work here was dedicated to fulfilling the Indian treaty obligations under the aegis of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) at The Hague, Netherlands.
During this period, the Project Site successfully fulfilled the Treaty obligations of the country, well ahead of the internationally mandated time lines.
As a Major General, he was Director of Proof & Experimental Establishment (PXE), Balasore, from August 2007 to September 2009 and was actively involved in T&East of Armaments. A discipline that lies in his area of interest, being from the Indian Artillery. General Anoop Malhotra was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General in August 2011 and later joined Defence Research & Development Organisation Headquarters as Chief Controller R&Doctorate (R&M) in January 2012.
Lieutenant General Anoop Malhotra, Central Committee R&Doctorate (R&M) has taken over additional charge of Central Committee R&Doctorate (Implementation) at Defence Research & Development Organisation Headquarters in New Delhi, India from 1 June 2012.
General Anoop Malhotra retired from service in April 2015 and now lives in Pune, India.
