Until December 2017, he was an Administrative Member of the Regional Bench of the Armed Forces Tribunal at Lucknow.

[1] He is the father of journalist Shaili Chopra and his son-in-law is Shivnath Thukral.

[2] Born on 6 December 1952, Air Marshal Chopra is an alumnus of Sainik School, Kapurthala, from the batch of 1968.

He was commissioned as a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force on 2 June 1973.

[citation needed] Air Marshal Chopra safely ejected from a Mirage 2000 in February 2012, when the aircraft suffered an engine failure.