India, July 10 -- Squadron Leader Lokender Singh Sindhu, one of the two Indian Air Force pilots who lost their lives in the Jaguar fighter jet crash in Rajasthan's Churu, became a father last month, and had joined back duty on June 30.

The 32-year-old Air Force pilot hailed from the Kheri Sadh village in Haryana's Rohtak. His wife Surbhi Sindhu, who is a doctor by profession, gave birth to a baby boy on June 10 at her parental home in Hisar. She was still there when she received news of her husband's passing.

According to the Squadron Leader's family, who live in Rohtak's Dev Colony, the pilot had joined duty on June 30, days after he became a father.

Squadron Leader Lokender Singh Sindhu's father Joginder Singh had retired as superint...