The Indian Air Force (IAF) has approved the name of Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna, who was killed in 1990 by separatist Yasin Malik, to be included on the National War Memorial.

“The Air Headquarters cleared the case for the inclusion of late Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna’s name in the National War Memorial list of Air Force personnel who have laid down lives for the country,” top IAF sources here said.

The decision was taken in the last week of September by the Air Force authorities concerned as the service is fully convinced that his name should have been there. The names of personnel killed in action are provided by the respective services to the National War Memorial and they are then put up on the walls there along with the detail of action in which they had laid down their lives.