Major Laishram Jyotin Singh, AC was an Officer in the Army Medical Corps of the Indian Army, who died fighting a suicide bomber during the attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul.

[3] Singh was born in 1972 in Manipur, India, in a Hindu Meitei family.

Just thirteen days after his posting, on 26 February 2010, a suicide bomber attacked the guarded residential compound where he was staying.

[6] Major Singh confronted the terrorist unarmed and forced him to detonate his vest, which resulted in his death.

He was awarded the Ashok Chakra "For his act of exemplary courage, grit, selflessness and valour in the face of a terrorist attack, resulting in his sacrifice and saving 10 of his colleagues"[7]