Additionally he is a recognized member of India's freedom struggle against the British and was an associate professor in the political science department at Oakland University.

In early June 1940, Subhas Chandra Bose surveyed the World War situation and came to the conclusion that Indian freedom fighters should have first hand knowledge as to what was happening abroad, and should join the fight against British.

The executive committee of Communist Party of Lahore decided that Chhina, whose Soviet name was Larkin, one of the organisers of Kirti in North West Frontier Province, should meet Bose in order to chalk out the detail escape plan.

In order to vouch for his intentions to seek Soviet support for India's freedom movement, his speeches should be studied and not the changes in his political principles.

His son, Abhay Krishan Mehta went on to become a prominent NRI in the Middle East, co-founding the Indian Business Council and emerging as a leading figure in the community.