Shooting Down of Wingman
Flying top cover to the MiG-27s were MiG-21M aircraft of No. 17 Squadron IAF. One of the escort pilots Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja left his station and came in low to locate Nachiketa. He was fired at by a Stinger missile and was shot down. A postmortem examination conducted by Indian military authorities claimed that Ahuja had landed safely after ejecting from his plane, but had been killed by Pakistani soldiers after being subjected to torture. It was reported that the left knee fracture was sustained when he parachuted down, but the gunshots show that he landed alive and was shot. And his death was called as a cold blooded murder. Pakistanis claimed the body was found after days of the plane being down due to the hostile terrain and was in bad condition because animals had tempered with it.
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