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PAF and IAF pilots with USAF colleagues after completion of course in US. Standing far left is PAF pilot Saleem Baig, who shot down IAF hunter over Peshawar & Gnat over Srinagar. Standing far right is IAF pilot Tejwant Singh who was shot down while flying a Mig21FL by PAF Sabre
Just to piggy back on your post.....
from http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/Honour-eludes-a-war-hero/article16462527.ece
"That was the case until a few years ago when a retired PAF officer, Wing Commander Salim Mirza Baig, who was in the thick of action in 1971, revealed in a personal war account that the Hunter flown by Muralidharan was among the two Indian fighter aircraft brought down by him in separate air battles in the war. According to Wing Commander Baig’s version of the battle over Peshawar, he admires the Hunter he took on, calling it a ‘tough nut to crack’ and conclusively says that the pilot was killed in air combat."
"The second aircraft brought down by Wing Commander Baig was a Gnat flown by Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, who took on six marauding Sabres over Srinagar before being gunned down. Sekhon was posthumously decorated with the Param Vir Chakra, the IAF’s only Param Vir Chakra till date. “Even as the time limit is said to be standing in way of a belated honour to the war hero, there’s precedence to the contrary,” says Mr. Nair."
Flying Officer KP Muralidharan
Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon, Param Vir Chakra