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By James Scalzitti Staff Reporter Feb 13, 2011 08:12PM

A 21-year-old Buffalo Grove man who recently completed 10 months of Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training for the U.S. Army credits his martial arts training for making him act against a man who tried to set fire to a River North restaurant last week.

Ajay Kumra was in the area of Chicago and Orleans late Wednesday afternoon when he decided to stop in the Baba Palace, 334 W. Chicago Ave., for dinner.

“I had my back facing the door,” he says, when he heard a man yelling. “I turned around and saw him slashing (a) gas can around.” The man, later identified as Asif Kahn, 42, had apparently been refused service at the restaurant earlier and returned with the gas can.

“I was about to walk out because I knew it wasn’t safe, but I turned around and saw him about to light the match, so I reacted by stopping him instead of leaving.”

He confronted the man, and hit him, in an effort to subdue him. Asked if the man put up a fight, Kumra said, “Not really, he was drunk. He was fighting back. He did grab my leg. Then he threw a chair, but I reacted to that by finally stopping him.”

Kahn, of the 8900 block of South Commercial Avenue, was arrested and charged with criminal damage to property, police News Affairs Officer Darryl Baety said.

Kumra says it was the “decisiveness” to react in such a situation that he learned through his training that made him take action.

“The other 20 people in the restaurant, (were) going to stand by and watch themselves go up in flames. I just had the decisiveness to do that.” For that he thanks his martial arts teachers, Instructor Richard Baron, who teaches in Highland Park and Sifu James McNeil, who teaches in Irvine, Calif. They’re part of Little Nine Heaven Kung Fu and Tai Chi in Highland Park. “Without them I don’t know,” Kumra says. “I’d have been like the other people waiting to be lit on fire.

Kahn apparently returned to the restaurant after the incident on Wednesday, according to police and Kumra.

Kahn was arrested again on Friday, Baety said, and charged with criminal trespass and violation of the conditions of his bail bond.

Kumra, who is a DePaul University student studying math and finance, is in the Army Reserves and has a contract to become an officer through ROTC. He went through Basic Training at Fort Knox, and Advanced Individual Training (AIT) at Fort Bragg.

“I plan on going on active duty once I graduate.

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