Lie One:
Squadron Leader Keelor was awarded a morale boosting Vir Chakra for downing a PAF Sabre - when in reality, IAF knew the plane had made it back.
Ajai Shukla wrote:
“After a quiet September 2, the IAF claimed its first kill on September 3, when Squadron Leader Trevor Keelor, flying a Gnat fighter, hit a PAF Sabre. The IAF, in need of something to celebrate, announced a “kill” and awarded the pilot a Vir Chakra. In fact the IAF knows that the Pakistani pilot, Flight Lieutenant Yusuf Ali Khan, nursed his damaged Sabre back to Sargodha air base.”
Source:
http://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-day-nothing-happened.html?m=1
“Radio that the IAF’s Squadron Leader Keelor had been awarded a gallantly medal for destroying Yusuf’s Sabre – which, in fact, was getting a new elevator in a repair shop for the next day’s flight.” - taken from the book “Vigil in the Sky”
Lie Two:
In 1965 IAF claimed that it had shot down an entire squadron of PAF planes led by Squadron leader Sajjad Haider. A BBC TV team went looking for the truth and found Haider and his men alive and kicking. Their planes were intact.
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Are there any more examples?