MUZAFFARABAD: In Horra’n village, located barely 7km from the Line of Control (LoC) at about 8:45am on Wednesday “smoke and sound” made the locals there realise that a dogfight was going on up above in the sky, Pak News Agency Dawn reports, quoting witness accounts.

Two aircraft had caught fire but while one of them sped across the LoC, the other burst into flames and came down speedily.

Its wreckage fell on a deserted field. A parachute descended towards the ground, which made landing in that area. Indian Wing Commander emerged out of the parachute safe and sound.
He was equipped with a pistol, asked the youngsters who had gathered near him whether it was India or Pakistan. On this, one of them responded that it was India. He later shouted some slogans and asked which place exactly it was in India.

To this, the same boy responded that it was Qilla’n.

Abhinandan told them that his back was broken and he needed water to drink.

Some emotional youth, who could not digest the slogans, shouted Pakistan army zindabad. On this, Abhinandan shot a fire in the air while the youths picked up stones in their hands.

The commander ran a distance of half a kilometre in backward direction while pointing his pistol towards the youths who were chasing him.

During this brisk movement, he fired some more gunshots in the air to frighten them but to no avail. Then he jumped into a small pond where he took out some documents and maps from his pockets, some of which he tried to swallow and soaked others in water.

The youths kept on asking him to drop his weapon and in the meanwhile one boy shot at his leg.
Finally, he came out and said he should not be killed. The youth got hold of him at both arms. Some of them roughed him up, in a fit of rage, while others kept on stopping them.

In the meanwhile, army personnel arrived there and took him into their custody and saved him from the enraged mob, he said.

However, before being captured by the Pak soldiers, this India’s brave hero gave a tough time to the unruly mob of Pakistani youths.

He was then taken to an army installation in Bhimber in a convoy of military vehicles. As the convoy passed through Khalil Chowk of Bhimber city, some 50km away from Horra’n, it was greeted by dozens of locals standing on both sides of the road. They showered rose petals on the military vehicles, amid slogans like Long Live Pakistan army, Long Live Pakistan Air Force, Long Live Pakistan and Long Live Kashmir.

Later Pakistan Public Relations agency released videos of Abhinandan at some Pak detention centre.

The latest video showed him calm and collected, drinking a cup of tea in front of his interrogator. He was heard saying that he was being treated well by Pakistani military personnel. However, he was seen politely evading questions about his hometown and his mission.