Vir Chakra (VrC)

During the operations against Pakistan in December 1971, Squadron Leader Jal Maniksha Mistry was a senior pilot in a fighter bomber squadron. On 4 December he carried out a counter air penetration mission to Kohat and caused extensive damage to the airfield. On 5 December, when he was leading a formation of two aircraft on a strike mission to the heavily defended Sakesar radar station, the aircraft flown by his Number 2 became unserviceable. Undeterred, he proceeded alone on this mission. On reaching the target, he attacked the radar station in the face of heavy ground fire and succeeded in damaging and putting it of the air.

Throughout, Squadron Leader Mistry displayed commendable courage, determination and devotion to duty