The Ajabpur position was thinly held by irregular troops under a junior commissioned officer. The heli landings took place around that place unhindered. The enemy air strikes continued to dominate the battle field. My troops simply ducked down in their trenches. Their power of movement and initiative was snatched away. The heliborne troops soon organized themselves quietly and attacked our position at Ashuganj from the north-east of the railway track. To counter this unforeseen development, that is, the landing of the heliborne troops at the rear, Nasim quickly reorganized his company inspite of air action and assaulted the enemy. Lance Naik Abdul Hai, the detachment commander of an MG post, kept on firing on the enemy from an open trench on the railway track till he was hit by a direct shot from 83 mm blendicide causing his instantaneous death. The enemy closed in our defended localities in a body. Soon they were drawn in unawares within our fold. Close quarter battle that continued for about an hour had witnessed some of the fiercest hand to hand fights. The enemy suffered a good number on casualties in this encounter.
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