evidence: General Shah Nawaz Khan was an Indian freedom fighter and an officer of the Second Indian National Army (INA), also known as the Azad Hind Fauj under the leadership of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose during the Second World War. He later became one of the three defendants in the first of the Indian National Army trials in the year 1946. [...] Shah Nawaz Khan was born on 24 January 1914 in the village of Matore in Kahuta, district of Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan) in the former British India. Captain Sardar Tikka Khan of Matore, his father served in the British Indian Army for almost 30 years. He received his education from the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College in Dehradun. [...] General Shah Nawaz Khan joined the Indian National Army in the year 1943 under the command of Bose. He also became a member of the Cabinet of Arzi Hukumat E Azad Hind, meaning the Provisional Government of Free India, which was also known as Azad Hind (Free India). In September 1945, Subhash Chandra Bose selected a regiment that consisted of the top members of the army, who were sent to action to lead the advance into India. The regiment was known as Subhash Brigade and Khan was elected by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose to command the troop. The Brigade took part in warfare in the Falam, Haka, Arakan, and in the locality of Kohima. Khan was appointed as number 1 Commander Division at Mandalay in December 1944.