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Garg had come from Indore in Madhya Pradesh.

“They met me during the day and wanted the search operation to be intensified so that they get to know something about Tomar. It’s almost five days and they have been waiting for some clues,” Shanker said.

Meanwhile,the IAF and Army teams,which took up the ground operations in the morning,abandoned it after snowfall started at higher altitudes and even in the main town of Keylong. The search parties returned to the base camp to wait for the weather to clear.

Shanker said the IAF have formed teams of trained personnel and on Monday a few more,specially trained for rescue operations in high altitude areas,will join from Ladakh.

Tomar,who is from Gwalior,was on a night flying exercise and had taken off from the Adampur air base near Jalandhar when the mishap happened.

Some locals have found wreckage of the fighter jet but since then,search parties,including aerial teams,have not been able to reach the site of the crash due to bad weather conditions and snowfall.