"Fighting the enemy in battle is my duty as a soldier; taking on the dacoits in the train was my duty as a human being,"-Bishnu Shrestha Bishnu Shrestha, a brave Gurkha soldier of Indian Army who defeated 40 train robbers while returning home after the voluntary retirement from the India army The band of about 40 robbers, some of whom were travelling as passengers, stopped the train in the Chittaranjan jungles in West Bengal around midnight. Shrestha was in seat no. 47 in coach AC3. They started snatching jewelry, cell phones, cash, laptops and other belongings from the passengers. The soldier had somehow remained a silent spectator amidst the melee, but not for long. He had enough when the robbers stripped an 18-year-old girl sitting next to him and tried to rape her right in front of her parents. He then took out his khukri and took on the robbers. He said the rest of the robbers fled after he killed three of them with his khukri and injured eight others. During the scuffle he received serious blade injury to his left hand while the girl also had a minor cut on her neck. The train resumed its journey after some 20 minutes and reached Chittaranja station. Police arrested the eight injured dacoits and recovered around 4,00,000 Indian rupees in cash, 40 gold necklaces, 200 cell phones, 40 laptops and other items that the fleeing robbers dropped in the train. The parents of the girl, who was going for her MBBS studies, also announced a cash award of Indian rupees 300,000 for him but he has not met them since.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 03:42:01 +0000
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