Mohammed Amin Naik

Major General Mohammed Amin Naik SM (born 25 September 1953) was an Indian Army officer.

Major General Naik was commissioned into the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army in December 1974.

Naik was born in Dadasara village in Pulwama district, Jammu and Kashmir, on 25 September 1953.

[citation needed] Naik served as Design Engineer civil and Garrison Engineer with Eastern Naval Command, Visakhapatnam, and was in Army Headquarters as General Staff Officer, DDG PPO, Additional Director General Personals Engineers and was also as Assistant Chief of the Integrated Defense TRIDOC with Headquarters Integrated Defense Staff.

[citation needed] In 2008, he became the first Kashmiri Muslim to become a General in the Indian Army.