Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon is an Indian Air Force officer. He received the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest wartime military honor, for his solitary defense of Srinagar Air Base against a Pakistan Air Force air raid during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. He was born into a Sikh Jat family on 17 July 1943 in the village of Isewal, Ludhiana, Punjab Province, British India. He was appointed to the Indian Air Force on 4 June 1967 as a pilot officer. He died on 14 December 1971.