Chinese troops crossed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) into India at least thrice in the last month in Uttarakhand, ANI reported, quoting sources.
According to ANI’s sources, soldiers from China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) crossed as far as four kilometres into Barahoti village in the Chamoli district of the state.
The news of these fresh incursions follows reports in March that the Indian Army and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police had informed the Centre that Chinese helicopters had committed at least five aerial intrusions into India in the first three months of 2018.
Choppers belonging to the PLA had entered Indian airspace in Eastern Ladakh’s Depsang and Uttarakhand’s Barahoti plains, among other places, as per information provided to the Hindustan Times by official sources on 26 March.
Similar LAC transgressions had also taken place in July 2017 when Chinese troops entered and crossed into at least a kilometre of Indian territory in Barahoti. Barahoti had also been witness to aerial transgressions by Chinese helicopters and infiltrations on foot by Chinese troops in both 2013 and 2014.
“Transgressions by China took place at areas where we both have different perceptions of the Line of Actual Control,” General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC) Northern Command, Lt Gen Ranbir Singh, told ANI earlier this year. He added that India and China have well-established high-level mechanisms to discuss issues related to LAC disputes.
The LAC is a 4,057-km border between India and China that runs across snow, glaciers, deserts, mountains, and rivers.
(With inputs from ANI)
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