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Chinese patrols enter Indian territory

Transgressions have led to face-off between the ITBP and the PLA twice in the past four days
NATIONAL BUREAU
NEW DELHI: Personnel of the

Peoples Liberation Army


(PLA) of China transgressed
into the Indian territory in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir,
twice in the past four days. An
official in the security establishment said that with the
new border defence mechanism in place, the issue was resolved in no time along the
Line of Actual Control (LAC).
While the first incident was
reported on March 8, there
was a face-off between the Indo-Tibetan Border Police
(ITBP) and the Chinese PLA
on Friday as well.
The official said that as the
summer had set in, both the
sides had initiated long-range
patrolling and the recent
transgressions were reported

along the undefined boundary


with China.
On March 8, Chinese troops
entered almost 6 km deep inside the Indian territory near
the Pangong lake in Ladakh.
The incident led to a standoff between security personnel of the two sides.
A platoon of at least 11 PLA
men, led by a colonel-rank officer, crossed over the LAC at
Finger VIII Sirjap-I area
close to the Pangong lake, said
the official.
The Chinese soldiers entered in four vehicles from
across the Thakung border
post of India and reached 5.5
km deep inside Indian territory, he said.
Fridays incident was also
reported near the Thakung
post in Ladakh with the two
sides engaged in an eyeball-to-

eyeball situation.
We showed them banners
and told them that they had
entered the Indian territory.
They retreated immediately
and the matter was resolved,

said the official.


He also explained that it
was incorrect to call the incidents as incursions.
Both the sides have undertaken long-range patrolling

and with no demarcation of


the border, we often transgress into each others territory. Such incidents reach their
peak in summers as active patrolling is done after the snow
has melted, said the official.
National Security Advisor
Ajit Doval, who was scheduled to visit China in January
this year but cancelled it due
to the Pathankot terror attack,
is expected to visit the neighbouring country in April.
The situation along the
banks of the 90 sqkm Pangong
lake, two-thirds of which is in
China, has always remained
volatile with Chinese troops
being intercepted by Indian
Army patrols several times after the three-week-long standoff in the Depsang plains of
Daulat Beg Oldie in May, 2013.

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