The place where the soldier Dharam Singh saw the Japanese platoon was not even a kilometer from the camping site. It was certain that if the confrontation happened, they will also get killed, being both outnumbered and under-armed. The only way which appeared to be viable was to attract attention of the group by firing at them and in the process alerting his own colleagues. Dharam picked up his carbine and moved at the opposite corner of the rock which gave him strategic view of the Japanese soldiers. He counted….. only thirty bullets with him. Probably he can reduce the number of enemy soldiers by thirty or twenty nine and keep the last one for himself. Getting killed was a better option than getting captured by Japs.

Within seconds, three Japanese soldiers collapsed being hit by bullets. The jungle erupted with the sound of carbines and before the enemy could get cover, they had already lost eight of their soldiers. Dharam perched behind the rock and kept firing at short intervals one bullet each. Before he reached his twenty ninth bullet, he was successful in holding the enemy for more than thirty minutes and waste their precious ammunitions. He could himself count twelve enemy soldiers dead before the final moment of decision came. The enemy knowing that he has run out of bullets started closing on him. There were almost one hundred of them against just one. Dharam decided that his moment of final sacrifice has come. He recited his final prayers and with final words of “Raja Ramchandra Ki Jai” (Hail my God Ramchandra) he pulled trigger of the gun on his own head.