Vir Chakra (VrC)

On 6 September 1965, Captain Ramesh Chandra Bakhshi, who was a company commander in a battalion of a Gorkha Regiment, was ordered to secure by 0400 hours an enemy post on the border in the Lahore Sector in Pakistan. He managed to infiltrate his company stealthily opposite his objective by 0355 hours and launched a fierce attack on the enemy. The post had been alerted and reinforced, but was captured after severe hand-to-hand fighting in which Captain Bakhshi sacrificed his life. 

In this action he was at the forefront of his company and displayed indomitable courage, dash and determination in the highest traditions of the Indian Army.