There are definitely more possibilities.
Especially IAF have a very notorious record of concealing truth in the past also from faking at least half a dozen surgical strikes on Pakistani soil to a real one in 2019 in which they missed the target but kept making fool out of their janta to hide shot down of SU30 Mki and minay others.
I wonder if it was not one of the Rafaels that went down, Anything from India must be taken with a truckload of salt.