Vir Chakra (VrC)

On 27 June, 1948, during an attack on the Pirkanthi feature, Rifleman Jas Bahadur Thapa was in the forward section of a leading platoon. The platoon was held up by three enemy LMG posts. Rifleman Jas Bahadur Thapa crawled forward with the intention of throwing grenades into one of the enemy posts but he came under heavy shower of enemy grenades and was seriously wounded. Not caring for his life, he continued crawling forward and completed his mission by throwing two grenades into enemy LMG post and silenced it.

Though he died a little later, he enabled the rest of his platoon to move forward and capture the objective. By this action he showed courage, complete disregard for his personal safety and high sense of duty.