New Delhi: India kept a Chinese soldier in the Demchok area in the contested border in Eastern Ladakh. According to set up customs, he will be returned back to Chinese authorities at the Chushul – Moldo meeting point after finishing of formalities.
The soldier who is a corporal is being interrogated to figure out whether he was on a mission related to espionage.
Indian Army in an announcement said: “A PLA soldier identified as Corporal Wang Ya Long was apprehended in the Demchok sector of Eastern Ladakh on October 19, 2020, after he had strayed across the LAC.”
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officer revealed to Indian agencies that he had crossed the contested border to recover a yak that had wandered into the Indian region.
The force said that the PLA soldier has been given medical help including oxygen, food and comfortable clothes to shield him from the harm of extreme altitude and cruel climatic conditions.
The Indian Army stated: “A request has also been received from the PLA about the whereabouts of the missing soldier.”
Updates on the detainment of the Chinese soldier, around 300 km south of Pangong Lake, caused a significant flutter given that it comes amidst unprecedented stress between the two nations.
Pressures among India and China have been running high since May when India spotted various intrusions into the Indian domain by the Chinese. Pressures bubbled over into a violent conflict on 15 June with 20 Indian fighters and an undisclosed number of Chinese soldiers killed.
India and China have amassed a great many soldiers, tanks and rockets in the worst ever border dispute in forty years. Various rounds of talks between senior military officers and diplomats and ministers have failed to solve the dispute.
The nuclear-equipped neighbours have been locked in a months-long length of the border dispute in the Ladakh area, with troops killing each other in hand-to-hand fights and shooting shots in the air as warnings.
The two sides have held a few rounds of military and diplomatic talks, however, have made little progress.
Winters have shown up on the Himalayas and soldiers currently face the possibility of braving temperate, 30 degrees under zero degree Celsius.
