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along the undefined boundarywith China.

On March 8, Chinese troopsentered almost 6 km deep in-side the Indian territory nearthe Pangong lake in Ladakh.

The incident led to a stand-off between security person-nel of the two sides.

A platoon of at least 11 PLAmen, led by a colonel-rank of-ficer, crossed over the LAC at‘Finger VIII’ Sirjap-I areaclose to the Pangong lake, said

the official.The Chinese soldiers en-

tered in four vehicles fromacross the Thakung borderpost of India and reached 5.5km deep inside Indian territo-ry, he said.

Friday’s incident was alsoreported near the Thakungpost in Ladakh with the twosides engaged in an eyeball-to-

eyeball situation.“We showed them banners

and told them that they hadentered the Indian territory.They retreated immediatelyand the matter was resolved,”

said the official.He also explained th

was incorrect to call the dents as “incursions.”

“Both the sides have untaken long-range patro

NEW DELHI: Personnel of thePeople’s Liberation Army(PLA) of China transgressedinto the Indian territory in La-dakh, Jammu and Kashmir,twice in the past four days. Anofficial in the security estab-lishment said that with thenew border defence mecha-nism in place, the issue was re-solved in no time along theLine of Actual Control (LAC).

While the first incident wasreported on March 8, therewas a face-off between the In-do-Tibetan Border Police(ITBP) and the Chinese PLAon Friday as well.

The official said that as thesummer had set in, both thesides had initiated long-rangepatrolling and the recenttransgressions were reported

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Chinese patrols enter Indian tTransgressions have led to face-off between the ITBP and the PLA twice in t