The Indian Army developed its own indigenous and efficient martial arts system, Army Martial Art Routine (AMAR) at the Army Institute of Physical Training (AIPT) in Pune.
In 2023, the couple, Dr Seema and Major Deepak Rao proposed to the Army Chief to review the AMAR module.
In 2023, the Army Chief sent Major Deepak and Dr Seema to review the AMAR curriculum at AIPT.
After a detailed review, Raos submitted a report stating that AMAR was a very efficient system. However, it can be improvised by adding quick termination skills developed by Major Rao over the course of 25 years of training the forces. Such killing methods would make AMAR deadlier and aimed at annihilation of the enemy with merely bare hands.
In 2024, General Manoj Pandey sent Major Deepak to AIPT to help add newer methods of termination. He added a series of techniques, including “strangle, choke, paralyse, break neck vertebrae, handicap, and immobilise enemies”.
At the age of 60, Major Deepak achieved another feather in his cap to help Indian Army improve AMAR and make it deadlier.
Previously Rao spent 25 years of his life in helping modernise close quarter “battle” training, for which he was made Honorary Major in Indian Army alongside M S Dhoni and Abhinav Bindra in November 2011.
