Bishnu Shrestha, an ex-soldier from the Indian army held off 40 armed robbers trying to hijack a train in India, while saving a girl from rape.

Valuebles varying from phones, wallets, jewelry, cash and other belongings of the passengers were ransacked,” Shrestha recalled. The soldier had somehow remained a silent spectator amidst the assault, but not for long. He has had enough when the robbers stripped an 18-year-old girl sitting next to him of her clothes, and tried to rape her right in front of her parents. He then took out his khukuri and took on the robbers single handedly.

“The group of about 40 armed robbers, some of whom were supposedly travelling as passengers, stopped the train in the Chittaranjan jungles in West Bengal around midnight. Ranchi in Jharkhand, was the location where Shrestha had boarded the train, the place of his posting–was in seat no. 47 in coach AC3.”

“The girl cried and pleaded for help, saying ´You are a soldier, please save a sister´,” Shrestha recalled. “Thinking of her as a sister of my own, I had to prevent her from being raped.” he added. He took one of the robbers under control and then started to attack the others. After killing three of them with his khukuri and injured eight others, the robbers started to flee.

“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,” said the Indian army nayak.

What is a Khukuri?

What is Shrestha?

A major Gorkhan badass.