He was the son of Chaudhari Gurdit Singh Saini and Shanti Devi of village Rallana in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab. He was Indian Police Services of officer of Punjab cadre and had joined Punjab Police in October 1922. He joined the Indian Police as Assistant-Supdt. of Police and worked in the various districts of the Punjab as Supdt. of Police up to 1946.
In 1948 he was given the joint command of the police forces of Himachal Pradesh, Delhi and Ajmer as Inspector General of Police, also called Commissioner of Police in union territories.
lieutenant should be noted that Himachal Pradesh, Delhi and Ajmer were still union territories in 1948. In 1945 Chaudhari received the decoration of Officer of the Order of the British Empire.