A Gurkha soldier, who fought 40 train robbers, to be felicitated in the Republic Day of India
While in the train, Maurya Express from Ranchi to Gorakhpur, on September 2, 2010, 35 year-old Bishnu saved a girl about to be raped by the train robbers in front of her helpless parents. After looting the train, when the robbers started to strip a 18 year old girl in front of him, he couldn’t contain his calmness. He took out his khukari and took on the a group of 40 robbers, alone. In the fight, he killed three of dacoits and injured eight others. Remaining dacoits fled the scene to save their lives.
The police arrested the eight injured dacoits and recovered Rs. 400,000 in cash, 40 gold necklaces, 200 cell phones, 40 laptops and other items left by the robbers while fleeing the train.
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Field Marshal Manekshaw ( Sam Bahadur) once famously quoted, that, ” If someone says, he is not afraid of dying, he is either lying, or he is Gurkha”
Source: https://indiansforguns.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=13110&sid=b90c8f8b68fef1ae58d7df1e2c9cf386
"A few honest men are better than numbers."-Oliver Cromwell
Had it not been for just only 1 armed Gurkha soldier, you can imagine what would have happended. Hundreds of unarmed train passengers would have been mute spectators like a bunch of sheep.
"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others" - Winston Churchill
How many of among us from the so called "educated" society in India truly have courage?
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
