After the trial, Khan declared that he would henceforth follow the path of non-violence espoused by Mahatama Gandhi and joined the Congress party.

As he states in his autobiography, Khan was born into a Punjabi Janjua Rajput[4] family on 24 January 1914 in Matore, a village now in the Rawalpindi District of Pakistan.

[7][8] However, Shah Rukh Khan's cousins, who still live in Peshawar, have refuted the notion that the family is Pashtun or that his grandfather moved from Afghanistan, as they speak Hindko, a dialect of Punjabi.

A prisoner of war in Singapore, he was profoundly influenced by Subhas Chandra Bose's speeches asking POWs to join the Indian National Army and to fight for a free India.

Later, Bose decided to select a regiment consisting of the cream of the INA and send it to action to spearhead the advance into India.

Khan led the army into North-Eastern India, seizing Kohima and Imphal which were held briefly by the INA under the authority of the Japanese.

Khan was tried, along with General Prem Sahgal and Colonel Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon and Brigadier Habib ur Rehman of Panjeri (Bhimber) for "waging war against the King Emperor" in a public court martial at the Red Fort in Delhi.

But Lal Bahadur Shastri, as Prime Minister, refused to accede and reminded them of his selfless service to India as an Officer of the INA.

But his support for permanent separate personal laws for religious communities led to his defeat in the 1967 elections against Jan Sangh.

[21] In the 2005 movie Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero, Khan was portrayed by actor Sonu Sood.